Keith Lehrer

“The keystone of the coherence theory is the principle that a belief is justified if and only if it coheres with a system of beliefs.”

“Autonomy is the capacity to form and act on one's own preferences and values.”

“My justification for my beliefs does not depend on anything that is not ultimately my own evaluation of my beliefs and my information.”

“Self-trust is the foundation of justification.”

“A person is trustworthy if she is worthy of our trust in her to do what she says she will do because she has a second-order desire to be a person who does what she says she will do.”

“A power surrender is the act of accepting what someone else accepts for reasons of trust.”

“To be rational is to maximize expected utility, but the utility must be my own.”

“Knowledge is undefeated justified true belief.”

“The problem of knowledge is to explain how it is that we can be justified in what we believe.”

“Exemplarism starts with exemplars, not with definitions, concepts, or principles.”