Alvin Plantinga's proper function epistemology requires that warrant-conferring faculties be designed to track truth, a standard Fischer's introspective bootstrapping cannot independently satisfy.
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Proper function epistemology(Plantinga's specific approach to understanding knowledge)
Plantinga's theory that you have genuine knowledge when your mental faculties (like perception or reasoning) are working as they were designed to work and successfully track what's true.
Track truth(as used in epistemology)
To reliably connect with or reflect what's actually real; if your beliefs 'track truth,' they tend to be accurate.
bootstrapping(Pattern discovery in knowledge extraction)
A method of expanding an initial set of extraction patterns or hypotheses by using known examples to discover new ones
epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
warrant(Toulmin's model of argumentation)
An implicit premise that an argument depends on, which licenses the move from evidence to conclusion; in this context, the unstated assumption that normal misdemeanor penalties are insufficient as a deterrent.