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This point applies to justified trust only if trust is justified in external rather than internal ways, however (see The Epistemology of Trust).
While the cultivation of any trust depends on what sort of mental attitude trust is, the cultivation of justified trust depends on how trust is justified (see The Epistemology of Trust).
So where is the line between justified trust and unreasonable gullibility?
Justified trust in others to ensure that these conditions exist is essential for autonomy, if in fact autonomy is relational.
The justifiedness of Sylvia's belief will then hinge on criteria for justified trust in testimony, a staple problem of social epistemology.
Our goal could simply be self-improvement: that is, becoming more trusting, hopefully in a good way, so that we reap the benefits of justified trust.
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Moreover, on McLeod's account, the self-trust necessary for autonomy is (epistemically) "justified self-trust": for instance, self-trust or self-distrust is not justified if agents overestimate or underestimate their competence in certain contexts (McLeod 2002, 104).
Although some self-trust might be better than none at all as far as knowledge and autonomy go (for no self-trust would leave us incapacitated and with no opportunity to learn from our mistakes), justified self-trust is best overall.
We saw that McLeod adopts a moral notion of justified self-trust as necessary for autonomy, which makes hers a weak substantive position.
Hence features of the world facts about the agent's competence are necessary for justified self-trust that in turn is necessary for autonomy.
A task force Emanuel organized amid the fallout from the video's release also found that the Chicago police face a "justified" lack of trust from the community.
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