Assertion: justification | /r/HasProperty | internal affair
Facets:
value: purely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: So, justification must be a purely internal affair.
text: For example, Roderick Chisholm writes that justification is “internal and immediate in that one can find out directly, by reflection, what one is justified in believing at any time” (1989: 7).
text: This not only proves that justification is internal (not legal and external), but that it is also ongoing (it’s not a one-time event of accepting Jesus as personal Lord and Savior).
text: But justification is not an internal work: It is an external act.
text: Those who argue that justification is external claim that whether a belief is justified depends on whether there is a law-like connection (conceptual or physical) between a belief and the state of affairs
text: In the terms that have been used in this paper, what is gestured toward in step (3) by saying that “justification must be a purely internal affair” is just mentalism as we have construed it.
text: (Even many proponents of externalist theories of knowledge, like Goldman when he wrote "Discrimination and Perceptual Knowledge," still thought that justification was a wholly internal affair.)
text: This not only proves that justification is internal (not legal and external), but that it is also ongoing (it’s not a one-time event of accepting Jesus as personal Lord and Savior).