A Contextual Theory of Epistemic Justification
Author: David Annis
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Conclusion:
The Contextualism theory has many different factors associated with it that are overlooked by both the Foundationalism theory and the Coherentism theory. Contextualism is a good option to Foundationalism and Coherentism, because unlike the latter two, Contextualism focuses on the social natures and contextual parameters of justification.
Clarification:
Foundationalism "The theory that every empirical statement which is justified ultimately must derive at least some of its justification from a special class of basic statements which have at least some degree of justification independent of the support such statements may derive from other statements."
Coherentism "A statement is justified if and only if it coheres with a certain kind of system of statements."
Reasons: (Premises)
1. Issue Context In order to properly examine an issue, we must be able to......
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