“Knowledge requires coherence, true enough, but it often requires more: e.g., that one be adequately related, causally or counterfactually, to the objects of one’s knowledge, to one’s environment or surroundings, which is not necessarily ensured by the mere coherence of one’s beliefs, no matter how comprehensively coherent they may be. […] Knowledge requires not only internal justification or coherence or rationality, but also external warrant or aptness. We must be both in good internal order and in appropriate external relation to our surrounding world.”
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Ernest Sosa: ‘Reflective Knowledge in the Best Circles’ (via fuckyeahphilosophy)
Good internal order? Appropriate external relation?
Does that mean you have to be a crazy outcast (as most philosophers were), or a level-headed person in an intimate position in society?
2 years ago