externalist

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adjective

Contending that there are non-internal factors which can affect the justificatory status of a belief

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Meanings

adjectiveexternalist (comparative more externalist, superlative most externalist)

comparative more externalist · superlative most externalist

  1. epistemologyContending that there are non-internal factors which can affect the justificatory status of a belief
    1 more example

    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.

    2008 August 30, Josefa Toribio, “State Versus Content: The Unfair Trial of Perceptual Nonconceptualism”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI
nounexternalist (plural externalists)

plural externalists

  1. One who adheres to externalist beliefs

Origin

Translations

Japanese 外在主義的, 外在主義者
  • 外在主義的contending that there are non-internal factors which can affect the justificatory status of a belief
  • 外在主義者one who adheres to externalist beliefs
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APA

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“externalist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/externalist. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “externalist,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/externalist.

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