Editing Internalism and externalism (section)

{{Short description|Philosophical terms}}
'''Internalism''' and '''externalism''' are two opposite ways of integrating and explaining various subjects in several areas of [[philosophy]]. These include human motivation, knowledge, justification, meaning, and truth. The distinction arises in many areas of debate with similar but distinct meanings. [[Internal–external distinction]] is a distinction used in philosophy to divide an ontology into two parts: an internal part concerning [[observation]] related to philosophy, and an external part concerning [[question]] related to philosophy.

Internalism is the thesis that no fact about the world can provide reasons for action independently of desires and beliefs.<ref name="D'Oro">Giuseppina D'Oro, [https://www.academia.edu/241389/Collingwood_Psychologism_and_Internalism "Collingwood, psychologism and internalism,"] ''European Journal of Philosophy'' '''12'''(2):163–177 (2004).</ref> Externalism is the thesis that reasons are to be identified with objective features of the world.<ref name="D'Oro" />