Law 531 Week 2 Mini Case

1. For a belief to be justified it needs three principles: reliability, coherence, and no better alternatives to the situation. If a belief does not have reliability it is untrustworthy. For instance let’s suppose someone were to tell you that they live in a massive and luxurious mansion and you find it difficult to imagine or believe. You want to come over and they avoid the question and come up with excuses, so you can never actually see the mansion with your eyes, you basically do not have proof. If the person lives in a mansion they should eventually display evidence of it either by inviting you over or maybe showing pictures of it, but if the person never does and intentionally avoids it, then it is reasonable for us to doubt if this person really lives in a mansion and our belief has reliability. So let’s now suppose we have background information on this person, such as we know their income, occupation and their personal liabilities to the bank. This person works as a janitor and makes $22,000 a year, and he has debt obligations which include the loan on his car worth $10,000 and his credit card expenses have reached a sum of $5,000, we also know that he has trouble paying off his credit and tends to put it off. This person is clearly depicting his dependency on credit and this indicates the unavailability of cash when he

I found the Constructive Nature of Human Perception the most interesting to learn about because instinctively we can take fragmented, incomplete information and come to a much larger and holistic conclusion, even though what we are actually presented with is originally very incomplete. I found it fascinating that this could possibly be due to our human evolution and that this is basically the result of our survival instincts. We naturally discard useless information and only focus on what is really important, kind of like reading in between the lines, you look for what is less obvious or hidden or perhaps suggested by these