Complexly Based Beliefs and the Generality Problem for Reliabilism

IF 0.1 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Quaestiones Disputatae Pub Date : 2018-08-28 DOI:10.5840/QD2018823
Max Baker-Hytch
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This essay argues that certain cases involving what I shall term complexly based belief, where a belief is formed via complex inference to the best explanation, pose a serious difficulty for reliabilist theories of epistemic justification or warrant. Many of our most important beliefs appear to be of this character. The problem, in short, is that in such cases we cannot identify any beliefforming process type that is such as to yield an intuitively correct verdict on the epistemic status of the agent’s belief. If this is correct, then no proposed solution to the generality problem can succeed.
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基于复杂的信念与可靠性的一般性问题
本文认为,涉及到我称之为基于复杂的信念的某些情况,即通过对最佳解释的复杂推理形成的信念,给可靠主义的认识论证明或保证理论带来了严重的困难。我们许多最重要的信念似乎都具有这种特征。简而言之,问题在于,在这种情况下,我们无法识别任何信念形成过程类型,从而对主体信念的认知状态产生直觉上正确的判断。如果这是正确的,那么针对普遍性问题的任何解决方案都不会成功。
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