Internalism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The doctrine that a particular mental phenomenon, such as motivation or justification, has an internal rather than external basis countable, uncountable

    "In fleshing out the relations of perceptual justification and perceptual content attribution, both contenders thus grant epistemic internalism."

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"In fleshing out the relations of perceptual justification and perceptual content attribution, both contenders thus grant epistemic internalism."

Etymology

From internal + -ism.

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