Externalist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Externalist is an adjective meaning (epistemology) Contending that there are non-internal factors which can affect the justificatory status of a belief.
Meaning
(epistemology) Contending that there are non-internal factors which can affect the justificatory status of a belief.
More Meanings
- One who adheres to externalist beliefs
Example Sentences
One possible way out would be to appeal to some suitable form of externalist epistemology— based e.g. on facts about reliable empirical connections between the creatures’ responsive dispositions and the content of their experiences—to try to explain just how the content of perceptual experiences informs these subjects’ intentional behaviour.
Word Forms
- externalists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include internalist, evidentialist, antiessentialist, antifoundational, eliminativist, institutionalist.
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