My point is that a belief originates when the following two come together: a spark and a fuel. The fuel could be a belief justification that is based ...
Thank you for all the responses. I am getting the impression that some of you are merely responding to the first paragraph of the tread's description,...
I agree with you. The thermometer is more accurate. You can call it the scientific method, if you will. My question is, what is that common denominato...
Guys, i think you miss understood the point of the question. Both of the justification methods are inductive by nature. Tom believes a thermometer bec...
Yes you don't need foundationalist or coherentist justification methods to come to a belief. Your beliefs can be prompted by an emotional impulse, soc...
Overall i agree with you. We can argue about the fields that constitute science or about the definition of the scientific method, but in general you a...
You are welcome. And thank you for sharing your thoughts. I think you hit the nail on the head. I am leaning toward the conclusion that one can justif...
I like your insights. However i wasn't talking about decisions and rationality. I was discussing beliefs and the methods of their justifications, part...
Well question was exactly, ca you justify that statement? Why does it have to be an inference chain? Coherentism reject that as a justification method...
I am not sure what you mean by clearly defined set. The entire calculus can be derived from 15 based assumptions. Those assumptions are reasonably bas...
The thesis claims that every scientific hypothesis requires a belief in a set of assumptions. Well, foundationalism also says that justification of al...
Thanks for the reference . I will definitely check it out. Let me make a case for why the understanding of the concepts of foundationalism and coheren...
] And i believe the two discussions are significantly different. One focuses on truth conductivity of the two theories. Other focuses on epistemic jus...
It seems your definition of foundationalism only applies to the physical world. For instance, do you set up an explicit chain of inference when making...
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