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Epistemic Closure and the Problem of Coherentism
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What is epistemic closure?
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The idea that knowledge is self-contained and cannot be justified by anything outside of itself.
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Epistemic closure is the idea that knowledge is self-contained and cannot be justified by anything outside of itself. This means that the justification for a belief must be found within the belief itself or within other beliefs that are justified by the first belief.