On Basic Knowledge and Justification

Canadian Journal of Philosophy 15 (4):625 - 628 (1985)
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Robert F. Almeder believes he has discovered a ‘pressing problem': ‘stating the conditions under which we determine whether a person's basic belief is true without introducing an evidence condition for knowledge’. He believes further that this is ‘a problem needing resolution before any ultimately satisfying explication of basic knowledge can be offered’.My aim is to show that Almeder has failed to discover any problem at all, but I begin by asking: how could the question how we determine the truth of another's basic belief have any bearing on the correct explication of the concept of basic knowledge?

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