Beliefs produced by these sources go beyond reason in the sense that the source of their warrant is not the deliverances of reason; of course it does not follow that such beliefs are irrational, or contrary to reason; nor does it follow that there is something especially dicey or insecure, or chancy about them, as if faith were necessarily blind or a leap in the dark.
Indeed, this account of justification marks him not merely as a proponent of a causal theory (as may be said of Descartes, relative to the divine epistemic guarantor) but as an early champion of a reliabilist approach to the causal processes, claiming them as the source of epistemic warrant.
The reason, of course, is that P has for you a source of warrant independent of the rest of your beliefs: you remember it.
Within hours of that phone call, Laprise assigned officers in the force's internal affairs department to find the source of the leak, leading to the warrants to obtain the journalists' phone records, the Journal reports.
For present purposes, perhaps the main epistemological question is this: what is the source of rationality, or warrant, or positive epistemic status, if any, enjoyed by religious belief?
They are opposed by anti-reductionists who hold, characteristically on a priori grounds, that testimony is a source of warrant in itself, not reducible to warrant derived from these other sources, even if empirically dependent on them.
Where search is made under the authority of a warrant issued from a judicial source, the scope of the search must be confined to the specific authorization of the warrant.
The view that our ordinary acceptance of testimony is justified only a posteriori has been taken as requiring the reductionist thesis that testimony, unlike perception, is not a fundamental source of warrant.
Contrary to one of the memo's central claims, the warrants show that the judges were told that the source of the so-called dossier had political motivations.
Equally innovative is his appeal to this putative source of warrant in support of his matter theory.
