ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with human knowledge. Externalist and reliabilist solutions have either denied justification is necessary for knowledge or affirmed that some beliefs are justified because of the causal, nomological, counterfactual, or statistical relationship to truth. Some borderline cases of knowledge as the term is ordinarily applied may be excluded as not being cases of knowledge in the more precise defined sense. Denying knowledge requires justification does not, of course, solve the trilemma with respect to justification, and the other solution is like the solution of the foundationalist. Knowledge arises when there is the appropriate sort of match between all of what a person believes and external reality. The object of epistemology is to find the right mix of internal factors and external relationships to explicate what is required. A critic of another theory of mine, a theory of consensus, once dubbed it a monster theory.
