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There is no standard terminology for what we shall henceforth refer to as noninferential knowledge or justification. [

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As Lehrer and others have pointed, it is far from clear that this concept of infallible belief has much relevance to an attempt to understand the epistemic concept of noninferential justification.

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The foundationalist's thesis in short is that all knowledge and justified belief rest ultimately on a foundation of noninferential knowledge or justified belief.

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We need to introduce a concept of noninferential justification in terms of which we can then recursively define inferential justification.

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If foundationalists are united in their conviction that there must be a kind of justification that does not depend on the having of other justified beliefs, they nevertheless disagree radically among themselves as to how to understand noninferential justification.

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At least one of these propositions could only be known through inference, and thus the putative noninferential justification is destroyed.

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But one might also argue, more fundamentally, that without a concept of noninferential justification, one faces a vicious conceptual regress.

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Noninferential justification is, after all, a kind of justification and if the impossibility of error is essential to noninferential justification, it may be more plausible to locate the source of infallibility in a special kind of justification available in support of a belief.

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Without nonlinguistic facts that are independent of the thoughts and judgments that represent them, one could not make sense of a relation of acquaintance between a person and a fact, a relation that grounds noninferential justification.

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Just as some anti-foundationalists reject the conception of truth underlying classical foundationalist accounts of noninferential justification, so others profess to be bewildered by some of the fundamental concepts employed in defining noninferential justification.

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