- Access(used in ethics and social philosophy to distinguish between what's theoretically available versus what's realistically possible)
- In philosophy, 'access' means having the theoretical ability or opportunity to do something, even if circumstances make it practically impossible to actually do it.
- Alvin Goldman(epistemology)
- An American philosopher known for developing 'reliabilism,' a theory arguing that knowledge comes from belief-forming processes that reliably produce true beliefs.
- Cognitive process(as used in epistemology)
- A mental activity your brain uses to gain information or form beliefs, like reasoning, memory, or perception.
- Reliable(as used in epistemology)
- Consistently trustworthy and likely to produce correct results most of the time.
- belief(Hume's account of causal inference, Treatise I.III.7–8)
- An idea that is almost as vivid and forceful as the impression of which it was once a copy
- 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
- knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
- Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
- reliabilism(epistemology)
- A theory holding that a belief is knowledge if it is true and if it was produced or is sustained by a reliable process that yields mostly true beliefs