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Must what justifies a belief be accessible from within the believer's own perspective, or can a reliable process the believer is unaware of confer justification?

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Internalists argue that a justification a thinker cannot access from the inside cannot be doing any justifying work for that thinker; externalists reply that small children and animals plainly have justified perceptual beliefs despite being unable to reflect on their own reliability. Neither side has produced a case the other accepts as decisive.

What would resolve this A shared account of what justification is FOR, whether it is about the thinker's own responsible believing or about tracking truth, would settle which condition is required; the two camps currently start from different accounts of that point.
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Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and Informations.v. Internalist vs. Externalist Conceptions of Epistemic JustificationView the Source
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