The Structure of Empirical Knowledge

BonJour, L. (1985). The Structure of Empirical Knowledge. Harvard University Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1985

Link

https://archive.org/details/structureofempir00bonjmatched

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mathematics, philosophy

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• Directed Acyclic Graph
  • Foundationalist accounts of justification demand a DAG to avoid infinite regress.

    This sourceFoundationalist justification requires a non-circular (acyclic) regress-terminating structure.

• Infinite Regress
  • … Same-kind demand: each justifier itself demands justification; the structure is self-similar at each level. Termination options: foundational stop (some belief is basic, needs no further justification—foundationalism, Chisholm ), circularity (beliefs mutually support each other in a web—coherentism, BonJour

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