Sunday, July 7, 2019

Justified True Belief

My Twitter page, if it continues on its present trajectory, will soon overtake this blog page, and that with far fewer posts. In my most recent tweet, I note that it seems strange to me that the philosophical concept of "justified true belief" is routinely applied to trivial examples. I might, say, have a true belief that you are in love. I base it on the fact that you skipped out of your front door this morning -- but you have always skipped out of your front door. My belief, therefore, is not justified. That is a trivial example. An important way in which I apply it in my metaphysic is to science. Science is true belief, but is not, I think, justified true belief.

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