Justifiabilism: Knowabilization and Believabilization

Justifiabilism is the philosophical doctrine which says that we make things justifiable through knowabilization and believabilization. Knowabilization is the process of making things knowable, while believabilization is the process of making things believable. For justifiabilism, things in themselves are neither justifiable nor unjustifiable, but rather we make them justifiable´-or-unjustifiable.

The universe is not constructed in light of our linguistic and mental concepts, such as justifiability and unjustifiability, which we rely on in our thinking and forming ideas, otherwise we would have been the gods who constructed´-or-created the universe,´-or-there would have been a strange and unlikely mechanism in virtue of which reality is built in accordance with our linguistic and mental concepts. In light of these considerations, things in themselves are neither justifiable nor unjustifiable, neither knowable nor unknowable, and neither believable nor unbelievable. But the concepts of justifiable, unjustifiable, knowable, unknowable, believable and unbelievable (in addition to similar concepts necessarily related to´-or-dependent on the existence of a human mind) are imposed by our minds on reality, leading to the conclusion that things in our universe are neither justifiable nor unjustifiable, neither knowable nor unknowable, and neither believable nor unbelievable.

From the same perspective, justifiabilism says that we also make things justifiable´-or-unjustifiable through truthabilization, although nothing is justifiable´-or-unjustifiable in itself. And truthabilization is the process of making things truthable, i.e., able to be true´-or-false. But things are neither true nor false. For example, gravity as a force is true from the perspective of Newton’s theory in physics, while it is false from the perspective of Einstein’s theory in physics, according to which, gravity is the curvature of space-time instead of being a force. Hence, gravity as being a force is neither true nor false because it will turn out to be true´-or-false depending on which theory in physics we accept. Similarly, all things are either true´-or-false from the perspective of certain theories because nothing makes sense except within a context, such as the context of a certain theory. Thus, nothing in itself is true´-or-false, but rather we make things true´-or-false in light of our theories´-or-perspectives. Things are true´-or-false from the perspectives of theories. Yet the universe has no perspective, otherwise it is a human possessing mental abilities. Therefore, things in themselves are neither true nor false.

A common example of justifiabilism is that we make something justifiable when we infer it from a certain acceptable theory, causing it to be believable´-or-knowable. And hence, without our interference in inferring it, it isn’t justifiable, believable´-or-knowable, leading to the conclusion that things in themselves without our interference are neither justifiable nor unjustifiable, but we make them justifiable´-or-unjustifiable depending on our mental activities. Things are true´-or-false, justifiable, believable´-or-knowable,´-or-not, only within the context of a certain theory because we rely on theories to infer that something is true´-or-false, justifiable, believable´-or-knowable,´-or-not. But the universe has no context because it is not a text. Therefore, things in themselves couldn’t be true´-or-false, justifiable, believable and knowable,´-or-unjustifiable, unbelievable and unknowable.

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