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Experiential foundationalists claim that perception is a source of justification.
Hence they need to answer the J-question: Why is perception a source of justification?
Such examples make it plausible to assume that perceptual experiences are a source of justification.
To raise problems for experiential foundationalism, coherentists could press the J-question: Why are perceptual experiences a source of justification?
The distinctively epistemological questions about memory are these: First, what makes memorial seemings a source of justification?
Or is memory a source of justification only if, as externalists would say, it is in fact reliable?
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For those who find this answer unsatisfying, however, there are two further sources of justification.
Nevertheless, we will assume that reductionist and anti-reductionists sources of justification (warrant, entitlement) are incompatible in cases of testimonial transmission, which is how they are dialectically presented.
5, below) will turn out not to be such sources and what, intuitively, seem to be experiential sources of justification will not turn out to be such sources (say, sense experience or introspection).
Similar remarks apply to so-called nonexperiential sources of justification: because the best psychological theories might categorize them according their causal roles, they might not categorize them according to their epistemic relevance.
The worry is that the best psychological theories might categorize experiences in such a way that what, intuitively, seem to be nonexperiential sources of justification (say, intellectual intuitions or rational insights; see sec.
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