Meanings
nouninternalism (countable and uncountable, plural internalisms)
plural internalisms
- countableuncountableThe doctrine that a particular mental phenomenon, such as motivation or justification, has an internal rather than external basis
In fleshing out the relations of perceptual justification and perceptual content attribution, both contenders thus grant epistemic internalism.
2008 August 30, Josefa Toribio, “State Versus Content: The Unfair Trial of Perceptual Nonconceptualism”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI
Origin
Translations
Japanese 内在主義
- 内在主義doctrine that a mental phenomenon has an internal basis
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