Internal vs Externalist - What's the difference?
internal | externalist |
inside of something
within the body
concerned with the domestic affairs of a nation, state or other political community.
concerned with the non-public affairs of a company or other organisation
(epistemology) Contending that there are non-internal factors which can affect the justificatory status of a belief
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, passage=One possible way out would be to appeal to some suitable form of externalist epistemology— based e.g. on facts about reliable empirical connections between the creatures’ responsive dispositions and the content of their experiences—to try to explain just how the content of perceptual experiences informs these subjects’ intentional behaviour. }}
As adjectives the difference between internal and externalist
is that internal is inside of something while externalist is (epistemology) contending that there are non-internal factors which can affect the justificatory status of a belief.As a noun externalist is
one who adheres to beliefs.internal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- We saw the internal compartments
- Her bleeding was internal
- The nation suffered from internal conflicts
- An internal investigation was conducted