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Yes, I think we agree, and I like the way you’ve put it. Even in first-person cases, the privacy is about access to the data, not about private standa...

Coninuing with paper... Post #2 Introduction The classical model of knowledge as JTB has remained a durable point of reference in epistemology. Its ap...

Good, I’m happy with the way you’ve positioned JTB+U as an account of practice-based justification rather than something Cartesian. I also like Willia...

I will be posting my paper in pieces for those who want to read it. I'll number the posts. Post #1 Justified True Belief Plus Understanding: A Wittgen...

Yes, I’m basically with Williams there, and I do think what he’s pointing to lines up with the Wittgensteinian point. Once doubt becomes “hyperbolical...

Just to emphasize: Descartes isn’t just doubting particular claims, he’s trying to doubt the very structure that makes doubt intelligible, and that’s ...

Thanks, that helps me understand what you’re defending in Descartes, and I’ll grant two points up front. First, Descartes isn’t doing “global doubt” i...

AI and why it matters to my paper A quick application that’s relevant to why I wrote this paper at all. One reason I keep talking about “justificatory...

Many people treat Cartesian doubt as if it were the gold standard of intellectual seriousness. From a Wittgensteinian standpoint, I don’t think it wor...

That's true of many systems of beliefs, not just religious beliefs.

That's the point of my thread, viz., that the testimonial evidence doesn't come close to justifying the belief in the resurrection. The problem is epi...

I do think religion can put us in contact with the metaphysical source of everything, and my best description of that source is consciousness. This th...

I agree. Some “why?” questions misfire because they try to question what makes questioning possible in the first place. In that sense the move is reto...

You’re right that my view is that Gettier trades on an impoverished picture of justification, and that the guardrails and the “+U” are meant to show w...

If you keep “adequate justification,” you haven’t really escaped JTB, you’ve just renamed it, and you’ve made key distinctions harder to state. “Adequ...

From a Wittgensteinian standpoint, I still can’t make sense of the Cartesian maneuver as doubt. Doubt isn’t a free-floating posture you can apply to a...

The point of my paper (the paper this thread is based on) was to strengthen traditional JTB with Witt's later philosophy.

I think you’ve set up the contrast well, but I’d adjust one thing. My view isn’t that the first “why?” is always meaningful and the second is always m...

The importance of testimony isn't just how it relates to the resurrection argument, but it's important across a wide range of domains even in science

Post 6: Number “Number” matters in testimony, but only when it means independent lines, not just a large headcount or a story repeated many times. In ...

I agree with your everyday point, i.e., nobody in ordinary life assumes absolute certainty before acting, and any account of knowledge that required t...

I think you’re close. I’d just tighten the hinge, so it isn’t framed as a claim about human consciousness, as if it were an empirical thesis. In my us...

Post 5: Variety Conviction can spread even when the evidence is thin. One of the things that keeps testimony from collapsing into group reinforcement ...

The resurrection is supposedly God's stamp of approval on Jesus, that he's God. It's also supposed to solve the problem of sin, etc. There are plenty ...

Post 4: Consistency Conviction can be sincere and stable, but sincerity doesn’t settle standing. One of the things that strengthens testimony is consi...

Thanks, it's not meandering, it’s actually very close to the point of the thread. You’re correct that, at a certain level, we’re dealing with texts, a...

Post 3: Corroboration Conviction can be sincere and widespread, but that doesn’t give a claim justificatory standing. Corroboration is one of the main...

I discuss hinges in a paper located here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/8443/an-analysis-of-on-certainty/p31 Scroll down to the paper titl...

Post 2: Firsthand Character Conviction is always present in a system of beliefs, but conviction alone isn’t enough to justify a belief. In other words...

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I appreciate how you’re keeping the placement of understanding in view. You’re right about the distinction that matters most: the dialogic or interact...

Thanks for the comment. You’re right about the sociological fact: many people today call themselves Christians who don't believe in a bodily resurrect...

I want to explain more about the guardrails, which add constraints to justification within a practice. Guardrails and the Discipline of Justification ...

I think your Wittgenstein point is right, and it helps me say what I am, and am not, claiming. I'm not treating Wittgenstein as offering a methodology...

I do think the framing is Wittgensteinian, but not because it appeals to “community agreement” as if justification were whatever a group votes into ex...

I'm no engineer, but it might look something like the following: No False Grounds (NFG) = “Are we building on bad inputs?” This is your QA/QC point. I...

I'll probably start a separate thread on that subject Tom. I'm not going to get into this subject here, but later in another thread. I'll just say thi...

Yes, the annunciation of knowledge is always situated in a local hermeneutic, a language, a practice, a way of drawing distinctions. I'm not trying to...

Not quite. What I am offering is a taxonomy of routes of justification that operate across many practices: testimony, logic, sensory experience, lingu...

I'm currently writing a book Why Christianity Fails using this epistemic model. Specifically, I analyze the testimonial evidence for the resurrection ...

From my paper: Much of the contemporary discussion treats Gettier’s paper as showing that JTB is insufficient. I do not think this is the right lesson...

Many acknowledge this, but then when pushed will only rely on science as if it's really the only method/s that counts. This is a confusion even among ...

Science is not a single justificatory route that replaces the others. It is a practice that braids them together and then tightens the standards of co...

In my framework, any proposed “method of justification” will usually be describable as a combination of the five routes I listed: Testimony, Logic (in...

Not doxa in the pejorative sense of mere opinion. I mean the normative standing a belief has when it is entitled by the standards of evidence and corr...

This is what I had in mind. A site conceptual model is a perfect case of knowledge that is not best expressed as a single proposition, but as an integ...

This is a strong reading of what I meant, and your student example captures the central point. “Mimicking the conclusions” is precisely the case where...

I don't think this is a tangent, I think it's exactly the kind of stress test that helps clarify my ideas. On the first point, I agree that a great de...

Optional sidebar: Hinges and Gödel, a structural parallel A brief note for readers interested in foundations. In my paper I suggest a structural paral...

Much of this is already written out, which is why I can respond quickly sometimes.