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How Do We Know?: An Introduction to Epistemology is unavailable, but you can change that!

What does it mean to know something? Can we have confidence in our knowledge? Epistemology, the study of knowledge, can often seem like a daunting subject. And yet few topics are more basic to human life. We are inquisitive creatures by nature, and the unending quest for truth leads us to raise difficult questions about the quest itself. What are the conditions, sources, and limits of our...

Now that we have dealt with questions about the nature of knowledge, truth, sources of knowledge, and much more, we turn to the issue of justification. In this chapter we will look at a variety of significant questions. First, what does it mean to be justified in believing something? We believe all kinds of things, and surely some of these beliefs are wrong. It would seem as though we are justified in some beliefs but not in others. So, what is the difference? Second,
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