RE: Argument from perpetual identity against naturalism.
March 20, 2013 at 12:39 pm
(This post was last modified: March 20, 2013 at 12:40 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 20, 2013 at 12:35 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: As I stated, we can justify properly basic beliefs. For example, it's very possible to justify why we should appreciate our parents love and goodness towards us. BUT BUT...we believed in it first in a properly basic manner and a few of us seek justification after.
And your understanding of properly basic beliefs is not in the way people use the term. The way the term is used is not that other beliefs are not required in that belief, it's that it's not justified from inference.
It's not......?
"Foundationalism holds that all beliefs must be justified in order to be believed. Beliefs therefore fall into two categories:
Beliefs that are properly basic, in that they do not depend upon justification of other beliefs, but on something outside the realm of belief (a "non-doxastic justification")
Beliefs that derive from one or more basic beliefs, and therefore depend on the basic beliefs for their validity"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_belief
Clearly 'some' people use it this way...... I don't think that we're disagreeing over how "some" people use the term..yourself for example...but about whether or not "some" people's...yourself for example...use of the term is accurate...
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