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Alvin I. Goldman: 2 ideas worth knowing

2 ideas from Alvin I. Goldman, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.

• A belief is justified if the process that produced it reliably produces true beliefs

  Alvin Goldman argued in 1979 that a belief is justified not because you can list reasons for it, but because a cognitive process that reliably generates true beliefs produced it, s…

  — Alvin I. Goldman, What Is Justified Belief?

• You can look straight at a real barn and still not really know you're seeing one

  Philosopher Alvin Goldman imagined a driver passing through a county where, unknown to him, most of the 'barns' he sees from the road are papier-mache facades built for a film set.…

  — Alvin Goldman, Discrimination and Perceptual Knowledge

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