ON PROOF, EVIDENCE, AND JUSTIFICATION IN RELATION TO KNOWLEDGE
The paper considers proofs and evidence as two forms of justification. It shows how knowledge and belief modalities can be 'unfolded' into justification terms. Proofs are justifications in their purest form, but justification logics can be seen as a more developed way to build a kind of formal epistemology. The vital question for seeing proofs and evidence as two forms of justification is the ontology of truth. The paper argues that the ontology of truth can be conceived as a situational interpretation of sense data or corresponding description of physical objects and their relations