Exam 8: What Is Knowledge?

Compare and contrast internalism and externalism.

Which of the following is not a declarative sentence?

Invalid inference strategies may nonetheless be legitimate under which of the following approaches to epistemic justification?

It is generally believed that there are three fundamental kinds of knowledge. Which of the following is not one of these?

A proposition can be thought of as something that is expressed by a declarative sentence that

For coherentists, an account of justification starts with __________ beliefs.

Which possibility, regarding the chain of justification, is referred to as Foundationalism?

__________ is an externalist approach to epistemic justification.

__________ used philosophy of science as a major source for its account of epistemic justification.

The most serious challenge facing foundationalism is

Of the three possibilities as to where the chain of inference and justification of one belief by others may stop, Aristotle considered which of the following to be the only legitimate option?

Coherentists claim that the __________ relationship among beliefs is necessary for a system of beliefs to be coherent.

A belief is justified for a reliabilist when that belief

Explain coherentism and one objection to it.

For reliabilism, beliefs formed on the basis of "testimony" are

For one version of reliabilism, the epistemic justification of beliefs depends on the

Foundationalists claim that a belief is justified

The philosopher __________ first claimed knowledge is justified true belief.

Although one may believe that p, and p may be true, one may still not know that p. This situation is universally agreed to arise from