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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