sample

I found reading the text not only helped define the key terms, but it also gave examples to make it more clear to the reader what is knowledge, truth etc.. In the lecture, Professor Morton talked about a rational belief that is unjustified. From my understanding it is a belief that a person has come by through rational reasons and thinking, but somewhere, an aspect of that belief is wrong and has been overlooked. As the example given in class, a person doing their math homework believes everything was correct. They reviewed it and checked all their answers and everything was correct. They got someone else to review and check their work and everything is correct. But when handing in the homework o the math teacher he finds a mistake. Therefore, the students belief that they had answered every question correctly on their math homework was a rational belief, but it was unjustified because there was a mistake or a flaw in the belief. I was wondering if there were any other simple examples for us to remember rational beliefs that are unjustified?

CourtneyChristianson19:27, 19 September 2011