What constitutes a good reason for believing something?
Title: What constitutes a good reason for believing something?
Category: /Social Sciences/Psychology
Details: Words: 988 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
What constitutes a good reason for believing something?
Category: /Social Sciences/Psychology
Details: Words: 988 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
If you talk about knowledge, you talk about justified true believe. That means for knowledge to be knowledge you have to justify this knowledge with reasons. For example people have walked on the moon. Most of the people believe although there is no real justification for that. That's why we say that is believe. There are nine reasons for the justification.
Authority, Faith Logic, Intuition, Memory, Sense perception, Consensus Gentium, Self-awareness and Revelation.
Knowledge is
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presumption that that point is part of the very nature of consciousness.
Reasons like self-awareness, memory, and faith can not be used to justify this statement because they just don't apply. Self-awareness just gives you knowledge about yourself. Memory is only what you can remember, and you can't remember that people have walked on the. Practically, we can assume that any justified beliefs are true as long as they are not refuted by later evidence.