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    BonJour's account of noninferential justification is prob... — Carmelics
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    BonJour's account of noninferential justification is problematic because it generates a regress of judgments of fit.

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    • 1.BonJour requires a higher-order judgment of fit between a belief's conceptual description and one's experience for the first-order belief to be noninferentially justified.
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    • 2.If a judgment of fit is required to justify the first-order belief, the same standard should apply to the judgment of fit itself.
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    • 3.Applying the same standard to the judgment of fit requires a further judgment of fit, and so on without end.
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    BonJour’s account of noninferentially justified belief similarly requires not only direct awareness of some fact, but also a “direct recognition” of the “fit” between that fact and the conceptual description embodied in the belief (BonJour 2003: 73–4). Both Fumerton and BonJour thus require some sort of awareness or grasp of the correspondence between a thought and what it is about. However, while Fumerton’s acquaintance with correspondence is acquaintance with a fact and not a judgment that a p
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