There are a variety of views about whether a priori justification can be defeated (overridden or undercut) by other evidence, especially empirical evidence, and a variety of views about whether a priori justification, and knowledge, must be only of necessary or analytic propositions (see examples (1a)–(4andand (7a)–(14a), below), or at least of ones believed to be necessary or analytic.
Since testimony is an empirical source, this is another example of how a priori justification can be defeated by empirical evidence.
Indeed, a theoretical justification can be provided by invoking the central limit theorem, since each element is the sum of random variables whose statistics are not explicitly modeled.
Of course, if Field allows that a priori justification can be empirically defeated, he faces the same problem as Harman in drawing the boundaries of a priori justification too broadly.
While the principle of Predicative Comprehension can be given a constructive justification, no such justification can be provided for the principle of Extensionality of Functions.
These considerations suggest that one aspect of the debate between naturalists and non-naturalists is best understood as a debate about whether knowledge and justification can be understood in naturalistically acceptable causal and reliabilist terms or must be understood in terms of naturalistically suspect evaluative terms.
He goes on to argue that a proposition's appearing to be necessarily true is the foundation of a priori justification, for he wants to allow that such justification can be fallible and defeasible.
"No political, military or economic justification can be advanced to explain with legal validity a unilateral resort to force in the absence of prior armed attack," he wrote.
Perhaps some justification can be given for this restriction if we develop a metaphysics on which objects themselves are ontologically fundamental, with events, processes, facts and states of affairs being derived entities.
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