Holism and Apriority
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چکیده
The paper discusses Sosa’s view of intuitional knowledge and raises the question of the nature of refl ective justifi cation of intuitional beliefs. It is assumed, in agreement with Sosa, that pieces of belief of good researchers are typically refl ectively justifi ed, in addition to being immediately, fi rst-level justifi ed. Sosa has convincingly argued that refl ective justifi cation typically mobilizes and indeed should mobilize capacities distinct from the original capacity that has produced the belief-candidate for being justifi ed, in order to assess the reliability of the original capacity. It has to go beyond justifi ers that are of the same-kind (“homogeneous”) as fi rst-level immediate ones, in order to enlarge the circle of justifi cation (and thus avoid viciousness), and is, therefore, holistic and coherentist. But if this holds, it seems that refl ective justifi cation of armchair beliefs, presumably produced by intuition and some reasoning, should revert to empirical considerations testifying to the reliability of intuition and reasoning. Therefore, it typically combines, in an articulated way, a posteriori elements contributing to the thinker’s refl ective trust in her armchair capacities. In short, the paper argues that Sosa’s own view of second-order justifi cation goes better with a more aposteriorist view, if it does not even force such a view.
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