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The 19 pages that link to Justification, each with the reason it gives.

• EpistemologyBroader topic: Whether knowledge requires justified belief has shaped debates about its definition.

• Philosophical skepticismRelated: Skepticism questions whether reasons can adequately support beliefs about the world.

• BeliefRelated: It distinguishes well-supported belief from mere acceptance as true.

• TruthRelated: A belief can be justified yet false, showing that support and truth differ.

• KnowledgeRelated: Many accounts require justification to distinguish knowledge from a lucky true belief.

• EvidentialismNarrower topic: Evidentialism offers an account of what makes a belief justified.

• FoundationalismNarrower topic: Foundationalism explains how beliefs acquire this status from basic beliefs.

• FideismRelated: Fideism disputes whether evidence and argument are necessary conditions for justified religious belief.

• Religious epistemologyRelated: Debates ask whether religious beliefs have adequate grounds or need evidential support.

• A priori and a posterioriRelated: The distinction concerns whether justification depends on experience.

• Alvin PlantingaRelated: Plantinga distinguishes justification from the warrant that turns true belief into knowledge.

• FallibilismRelated: Fallibilist accounts allow justification to support knowledge without guaranteeing truth.

• ReliabilismNarrower topic: Reliabilism explains justification through the truth-conduciveness of belief-forming processes.

• Social EpistemologyRelated: Social sources can contribute to, undermine, or distribute reasons for belief.

• KnowledgeRelated: Traditional accounts treat justification as a condition for knowing.

• Infinite regressNarrower topic: A justificatory regress occurs when every supporting reason requires further support.

• Circular reasoningRelated: The central question is whether a conclusion has support independent of itself.

• John McDowellRelated: His central question is how experience can justify belief rather than merely cause it.

• William AlstonRelated: His theory of doxastic practices explains how beliefs can acquire justification.