![]() Donald Davidson urged adoption of the "principle of charity" when we attribute beliefs to others who speak a language entirely new to us. One is most charitable when one describes most of those beliefs as being true. The idea is that when we try to understand what someone believes, be it our own self or another person, we should attribute beliefs in a charitable way. The standard argument given to support the denial of the possibility of massive error has nothing to do with a previous record of success or trust in one's self. ![]() But the basis for this acceptance is to be found in what one accepts about one's "track record," or perhaps in the principle of trustworthiness itself. This is tantamount to accepting our own trustworthiness, which is a central feature of personal justification as he understands it. For even if the evaluation system on which it is based it is only moderately in error, there is still plenty of opportunity for a given justification to be defeated.Īs Lehrer points out, taking our own acceptance system to be mostly correct is "congenial to the account of justification" he offers (p. Lehrer argues against the necessity of denying that one's acceptance system is massively in error, but it seems that he need not have taken the trouble to do so. But, "Personal justification does not automatically convert to undefeated justification as a result of the necessity of interpreting most of the acceptance system a person has is true, for there is no such necessity" (p. If so, it might be a consequence that personal justification is automatically undefeated justification. It may be that we should never attribute massive error to a person. Lehrer first takes up the possibility that a person's acceptance system is massively in error. In general, personal justification for accepting that p is undefeated when it holds up when the evaluation system is corrected for error. In the present chapter, Lehrer gives an account of undefeated justification, which he regards as a necessary condition for knowledge. ![]() Coherence with an evaluation system is not a guarantee of truth because the evaluation system itself may be in error. ![]() The account of personal justification given in Chapter 6 is fallibilist. Mattey, Senior Lecturer, UC Davis Philosophy Department Lecture Notes, Lehrer's Theory of Knowledge, Chapter 7, Coherence, Truth, and Undefeated JustificationĢ002 Lecture Notes, Lehrer's Theory of Knowledge, second edition Chapter 7, Coherence, Truth, and Justificationīy G. ![]()
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