Reliabilism, Induction, and Scepticism Papineau, David

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Papineau, David
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Skepticism -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes; Reliability -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes; Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
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A reliabilist account depicts knowledge as the state needed to avoid acquiring erroneous beliefs. Certainty, or any subjective justification, is not required since reliable processes may not be conscious ones. By this account, inductive inferences are reliable because people have used induction to arrive at true conclusions. Although this argument itself uses induction, it can be considered reliable as long as there is no reason to distrust it. This form of argument can be used generally against skepticism since certainty is not required under reliabilism.
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