El problema de la justificación del conocimiento básico

María Dolores García Arnaldos

doi:10.5209/ASHF.63369

The problem of the justification of basic knowledge

María Dolores García Arnaldos Universidad CEU-San Pablo (Madrid). PhD USC ORCID: 0000-0001-9998-8060

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/ASHF.63369

Keywords: basic knowledge, entitlement, inferential justification, logical knowledge, non-inferential justification.

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the justification problem of the basic knowledge and offer a non-inferential solution based on a kind of deflacionary non-evidentialist justification from the notions of entitlement and rational warrant. The problem in the case of the basic logical knowledge, in general, is that to justify inferentially logical rules involves using logical principles, thus a vicious circle is generated. We examine the feasibility of Wright’s non-inferentialist approach and we state that a rational warrant is a feasible answer to the problem of basic logical knowledge.

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García Arnaldos M. D. (2019). The problem of the justification of basic knowledge. Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía, 36(1), 243-259. https://doi.org/10.5209/ASHF.63369

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