Self-referential belief formation is epistemically circular: a belief cannot gain justification by appealing to the reliability of the very cognitive process producing that belief.
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Whether a method or process tends to produce correct or true results consistently.
Self-referential(as used in logic)
When a statement refers to itself rather than to something external; like a sentence that talks about its own truth or falsehood.
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
justification(Third condition of the tripartite account of knowledge)
The condition on a knower's belief that excludes mere luck — the belief must be held in a way that is appropriate or warranted, not merely accidentally correct.