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People in those two corners believe that they have knowledge, or justified true belief.
But how exactly do we get noninferential knowledge or justified belief out of acquaintance?
Since general skepticism is an epistemological view about the limits of knowledge or justified belief, the most central version of moral skepticism is the one that raises doubts about moral knowledge or justified moral belief.
Most of them also explicitly endorse classical foundationalism: like Russell, they hold that all knowledge or justified belief ultimately depends on a foundation of knowledge or justified belief acquired by acquaintance.
Therefore, the classical foundationalist's acquaintance or direct awareness cannot serve as a foundational source of knowledge or justified belief.
Internalism in the first instance is a thesis about the basis of either knowledge or justified belief.
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An important note at this juncture is that Reid very infrequently uses contemporary epistemological terms such as "knowledge", "rational", or "justified", and even when he does, he does not offer necessary and sufficient conditions for their definition.
None of these skeptical theses is implied by either skepticism about moral knowledge or skepticism about justified moral belief.
The first prong is that no simple criterion for knowledge (or reliable belief or justified belief) has ever been devised that succeeds in ruling out knowledge of the abstract without thereby ruling out types of knowledge most naturalists would accept (Steiner 1975).
Epistemology is the study of knowledge and justified belief, or, rather, how we know what we know.
Therefore, there can be no objective or externally justified ethical knowledge or judgment (Harman 1975).
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