JWeinCom said:
I would disagree that the reasons you've provided so far are good reasons. They at best point to a deistic god, but the premises of each are flawed. I've yet to hear a solid reason to justify belief. I'd also quibble about the definition of knowledge. Most of the time I see that definition it includes the word "justified". I can have a belief that is true, but that may not be justified. For example, I can say I know that your favorite color is blue, because my psychic powers told me. Your favorite color may actually be blue, but it really wouldn't be accurate to call it knowledge, because I have no way to justify it as of now. Justified true belief also has some issues as a definition for knowledge, but it is stronger. |
A justified true belief is the Classical Notion of Knowledge. It's also a deeply troubled notion that has been pretty much discarded by mainstream epistemology in favor of Reliabilism and Virtue Epistemology. Note that justification for your cognitive and perceptual sucesses are necessary in epestemic internalism, while in epestemic externalism they don't need to be internally justified, but they need to be true (which is our point of contention)