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- Title
RELIABILIST JUSTIFICATION (OR KNOWLEDGE) AS A GOOD TRUTH-RATIO.
- Authors
ADLER, JONATHAN E.
- Abstract
Fair lotteries offer familiar ways to pose a number of epistemological problems, prominently those of closure and of scepticism. Although these problems apply to many epistemological positions, in this paper I develop a variant of a lottery case to raise a difficulty with the reliabilist's fundamental claim that justification or knowledge is to be analyzed as a high truth-ratio (of the relevant belief-forming processes). In developing the difficulty broader issues are joined including fallibility and the relation of reliability to understanding.
- Subjects
EMPIRICISM; THEORY of knowledge; JUSTIFICATION (Theory of knowledge); SKEPTICISM; AGNOSTICISM; JUSTIFICATION (Ethics); PHILOSOPHICAL anthropology; PHILOSOPHY; METAPHYSICS
- Publication
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2005, Vol 86, Issue 4, p445
- ISSN
0279-0750
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0114.2005.00236.x