Re: Solidity is degree of justification (was: Mirror neurons at autopsy)

David Deutsch <david.deutsch-LR/[email protected]>
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On 28/12/2012, at 5:38, "Elliot Temple" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 4:04 AM, David Deutsch <david.deutsch-LR/[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 25 Dec 2012, at 23:58, Elliot Temple <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:13 AM, David Deutsch <david.deutsch-LR/[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> currently called 'justificationism', namely that knowledge is that which can be justified as true, or likely to be true, etc.
>>> 
>>> That is not what justificationism means. Justificationism is the
>>> concept that ideas have an amount/degree/weight of justification
>>> (epistemic status, aka confirmation, support, authority, probability,
>>> etc), by which we should judge them.
>> 
>> for truth
> 
> For epistemology.

So "Justificationism is the concept that ideas have [weights] by which we should judge them for epistemology".

Could you give a reference that defines the term 'justificationism' in this way? At the moment I can't imagine what "judging something for epistemology" might mean. 

-- David Deutsch
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