justificational

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adjective

Characteristic of a justification

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Meanings

adjectivejustificational (not comparable)
  1. not comparableCharacteristic of a justification

    But the justificational dependence presupposed by Hume and by the traditional conception of knowledge is internalist: the subject has cognitive access to the factors that justify her believing something.

    2007 October 9, Manuel Pérez Otero, “The Humean problem of induction and Carroll’s Paradox”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 3, →DOI

Origin

From justification + -al.

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