Tag: warrant
What is “evidence”? Every epistemologist (epistemology being the study of “how we know”) uses the word with great regularity, yet definitions or specific characteristics are difficult to come across. Evidentialism, that epistemological enterprise based on”evidence”, does not make the enterprise any clearer, using ambiguous terminology such as “quality” to determine the fittingness of evidence. How does one determine the quality of such evidence? By the explanatory power of the evidence? By some ineff able characteristic? Such a question does not have a solid answer, other than placing an “obligatory” status on “good” evidence.