Dialectic and Dialogue in Plato: Revisiting the Image of "Socrates
... drastically from the aforementioned forms of “dialectic,” one in which the method of questioning expresses a sense of ignorance against the backdrop of an “understanding” that allows for questions to be given form, all the while embracing the radical finitude bound up with all human efforts to make ...
... drastically from the aforementioned forms of “dialectic,” one in which the method of questioning expresses a sense of ignorance against the backdrop of an “understanding” that allows for questions to be given form, all the while embracing the radical finitude bound up with all human efforts to make ...
Entitlement, Justification, and the Bootstrapping
... this stance are guilty of over-intellectualizing epistemology, for it demands of subjects that they possess highly sophisticated self-reflective abilities which certain individuals may lack. If justification requires that subjects always have reflective access to the features that make them justifie ...
... this stance are guilty of over-intellectualizing epistemology, for it demands of subjects that they possess highly sophisticated self-reflective abilities which certain individuals may lack. If justification requires that subjects always have reflective access to the features that make them justifie ...
A Comparative Study of the Epistemology of Immanuel Kant and that
... K. N. Jayatilleke starts his Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge with an overview of the historical parallel between Europe and India in their philosophical evolutions: When we consider the history of thought in Greece, we find that metaphysics first develops out of mythology and it is only when meta ...
... K. N. Jayatilleke starts his Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge with an overview of the historical parallel between Europe and India in their philosophical evolutions: When we consider the history of thought in Greece, we find that metaphysics first develops out of mythology and it is only when meta ...
The Importance of Being Earnest: Scepticism and the Limits of
... background, not so much because they are felt to be less urgent, but rather because they come to be concealed from the reader’s immediate view by logically subsequent issues and theories, sometimes only apparently more pressing. In Peirce’s case, which interests us here most, the concealing feature ...
... background, not so much because they are felt to be less urgent, but rather because they come to be concealed from the reader’s immediate view by logically subsequent issues and theories, sometimes only apparently more pressing. In Peirce’s case, which interests us here most, the concealing feature ...
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... KNOWING THE LIMITS — A WISDOM OF IGNORANCE For Confucius, knowledge simply begins with honesty in self-knowing. He said to one of his pupils, “Zilu, shall I teach you what it is to know? When you know something, you say so — it is because you know it, when you don’t know something, you should say it ...
... KNOWING THE LIMITS — A WISDOM OF IGNORANCE For Confucius, knowledge simply begins with honesty in self-knowing. He said to one of his pupils, “Zilu, shall I teach you what it is to know? When you know something, you say so — it is because you know it, when you don’t know something, you should say it ...
Disagreement and Skepticism
... values, properties, or facts. It is true that Mackie (1980) also complemented his error theoretic position with the thesis of moral objectification or projectivism in order to offer an explanation of the origin of our pro-morality intuitions which does not presuppose their truth. But for present pur ...
... values, properties, or facts. It is true that Mackie (1980) also complemented his error theoretic position with the thesis of moral objectification or projectivism in order to offer an explanation of the origin of our pro-morality intuitions which does not presuppose their truth. But for present pur ...
A Beginner`s Guide to Descartes`s Meditations
... La Haye-Descartes in 1802, and subsequently, in 1967, simply Descartes). His mother having died when he was only one year old, he lived from that time on with his elder brother and sister in the house of his maternal grandmother. Between the ages often and eighteen he attended the Jesuit College of ...
... La Haye-Descartes in 1802, and subsequently, in 1967, simply Descartes). His mother having died when he was only one year old, he lived from that time on with his elder brother and sister in the house of his maternal grandmother. Between the ages often and eighteen he attended the Jesuit College of ...
Session 1 Rationalism –v
... What is Philosophy? MMUBS Mres Epistemology, session 1, 30 October 2003, http://cfpm.org/~bruce slide-11 ...
... What is Philosophy? MMUBS Mres Epistemology, session 1, 30 October 2003, http://cfpm.org/~bruce slide-11 ...
What if all truth is context-dependent?
... in such a situation using an abstract notion of quantifying across ever-wider contexts – something can be defined as absolutely true if it is true in all contexts containing the one it is posited in. Such a quantification is, of course, an absolute notion – standing above a never-ending progression ...
... in such a situation using an abstract notion of quantifying across ever-wider contexts – something can be defined as absolutely true if it is true in all contexts containing the one it is posited in. Such a quantification is, of course, an absolute notion – standing above a never-ending progression ...
THE CONCEPT OF VERBUM IN THE WRITINGS OF ST. THOMAS
... of Empedocles that fancied an initial state of nature in which heads existed apart from necks and trunks apart from limbs; later, concord brought such separate members together into the harmonious wholes of the animals that, by a well-known law, alone have survived. In like manner, Aristotle contend ...
... of Empedocles that fancied an initial state of nature in which heads existed apart from necks and trunks apart from limbs; later, concord brought such separate members together into the harmonious wholes of the animals that, by a well-known law, alone have survived. In like manner, Aristotle contend ...
Lecture notes on Immanuel Kant
... Kant arrived at these conclusions will be explored in this series of lectures. 3. The Nature of Knowledge Another word which is given only an approximate English translation is Understanding from the German ‘Verstand’. Kant intended this word to refer simply to the use of reason and concepts in know ...
... Kant arrived at these conclusions will be explored in this series of lectures. 3. The Nature of Knowledge Another word which is given only an approximate English translation is Understanding from the German ‘Verstand’. Kant intended this word to refer simply to the use of reason and concepts in know ...
Libertarianism and Skepticism about Free Will
... There is good reason to care about satisfying this more demanding standard. Given the picture of philosophical labors I began with—generating probable truths in a domain in which we lack reliable methods for determining the truth—this raising of the dialectical bar is something of an inevitable outc ...
... There is good reason to care about satisfying this more demanding standard. Given the picture of philosophical labors I began with—generating probable truths in a domain in which we lack reliable methods for determining the truth—this raising of the dialectical bar is something of an inevitable outc ...
analysis of knowledge, assertion, verification
... concepts, but I am very sceptical of this, since they are both propositional attitudes, belong to the same linguistic category. On the other hand, one could maintain that knowledge and assertion are concepts of the same linguistic category, a view that I agree with, since they both aim to the truth ...
... concepts, but I am very sceptical of this, since they are both propositional attitudes, belong to the same linguistic category. On the other hand, one could maintain that knowledge and assertion are concepts of the same linguistic category, a view that I agree with, since they both aim to the truth ...
The Evidence of the Senses
... my face, I have ‘direct perceptual access’ to the fact that there is hand before me; as a handless brain in a vat, I enjoy no such access. If this ‘disjunctive conception of experience’ is correct, there are two very different ways in which it might be true that ‘my experience is in all respects as ...
... my face, I have ‘direct perceptual access’ to the fact that there is hand before me; as a handless brain in a vat, I enjoy no such access. If this ‘disjunctive conception of experience’ is correct, there are two very different ways in which it might be true that ‘my experience is in all respects as ...
Kant`s Distinction Between Theoretical and Practical Knowledge
... natures and the relations of fitness and propriety derivable from them, just as reason's theoretical knowledge lies in an apprehension of the independently subsisting essences and natures of the things that are. For the rational intuitionist, then, in both the practical and the theoretical case, kno ...
... natures and the relations of fitness and propriety derivable from them, just as reason's theoretical knowledge lies in an apprehension of the independently subsisting essences and natures of the things that are. For the rational intuitionist, then, in both the practical and the theoretical case, kno ...
The Issue of Correspondence between Scientific Law and Ultimate
... possibly differentiate true and false opinion within ourselves, if we are prone to committing errors such as this? Socrates and Theaetetus conclude the dialogue without a definition of knowledge that feasibly allows for the proper sorting through of the pieces of opinion, knowing which pieces we can ...
... possibly differentiate true and false opinion within ourselves, if we are prone to committing errors such as this? Socrates and Theaetetus conclude the dialogue without a definition of knowledge that feasibly allows for the proper sorting through of the pieces of opinion, knowing which pieces we can ...
Descartes, Mathematics and Music
... who led the way, claiming that "Universal Mathematics" is the basis for unifying all human knowledge. Descartes's unique interest in mathematics was evident in his early years when he was a student at the Jesuit School at La Fleche. After completing the full curriculum of languages and humane letter ...
... who led the way, claiming that "Universal Mathematics" is the basis for unifying all human knowledge. Descartes's unique interest in mathematics was evident in his early years when he was a student at the Jesuit School at La Fleche. After completing the full curriculum of languages and humane letter ...
modern western philosophy BA PHILOSOPHY VI SEMESTER
... is an individualist in the sense that he makes experiments for himself, verifies hypotheses with his own eyes, and tests the logic of arguments with his own thinking. He looks to authorities for suggestion, but he accepts nothing for truth simply because it is asserted by some authority, no matter h ...
... is an individualist in the sense that he makes experiments for himself, verifies hypotheses with his own eyes, and tests the logic of arguments with his own thinking. He looks to authorities for suggestion, but he accepts nothing for truth simply because it is asserted by some authority, no matter h ...
Walden: Philosophy and Knowledge of Humankind
... 5. At any rate, Thoreau's trade, the trade that Walden has to teach, is a trade not easily learned. And it is a trade not to be picked up in a trade school. When the trade is acquired independently, it is acquired by experiment, by conducting "a thousand simple tests", by plain living and plain thin ...
... 5. At any rate, Thoreau's trade, the trade that Walden has to teach, is a trade not easily learned. And it is a trade not to be picked up in a trade school. When the trade is acquired independently, it is acquired by experiment, by conducting "a thousand simple tests", by plain living and plain thin ...
Skeptical Hypotheses and Moral Skepticism
... epistemic form of the view which denies us moral knowledge because we lack sufficient justification. Moreover, I shall focus on those moral skeptics who, like perceptual skeptics, argue for their position via skeptical scenarios, which appeal to the mere existence of certain hypotheses, without the ...
... epistemic form of the view which denies us moral knowledge because we lack sufficient justification. Moreover, I shall focus on those moral skeptics who, like perceptual skeptics, argue for their position via skeptical scenarios, which appeal to the mere existence of certain hypotheses, without the ...
problemsofphilosophy
... this is stronger than the practical man's, and is more troubled by knowledge as to the difficulties of answering the question. To return to the table. It is evident from what we have found, that there is no colour which pre-eminently appears to be _the_ colour of the table, or even of any one partic ...
... this is stronger than the practical man's, and is more troubled by knowledge as to the difficulties of answering the question. To return to the table. It is evident from what we have found, that there is no colour which pre-eminently appears to be _the_ colour of the table, or even of any one partic ...
Russell, Bertrand - The Problems of Philosophy
... colour which common sense says they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear. Here we have already the beginning of one of the distinctions that cause most trouble in philosophy -- the distinction between 'appearance' and 'reality', between what things seem to be and wh ...
... colour which common sense says they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear. Here we have already the beginning of one of the distinctions that cause most trouble in philosophy -- the distinction between 'appearance' and 'reality', between what things seem to be and wh ...
THE PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY (London: Oxford University
... thing as matter at all, and that the world consists of nothing but minds and their ideas. Hylas has hitherto believed in matter, but he is no match for Philonous, who mercilessly drives him into contradictions and paradoxes, and makes his own denial of matter seem, in the end, as if it were almost c ...
... thing as matter at all, and that the world consists of nothing but minds and their ideas. Hylas has hitherto believed in matter, but he is no match for Philonous, who mercilessly drives him into contradictions and paradoxes, and makes his own denial of matter seem, in the end, as if it were almost c ...
Chapter 2 Metaphysics, Fideism, Speculation
... necessarily. The critique of ideologies, which ultimately always consists in demonstrating that a social situation which is presented as inevitable is actually contingent, is essentially indissociable from the critique of metaphysics, the latter being understood as the illusory manufacturing of nece ...
... necessarily. The critique of ideologies, which ultimately always consists in demonstrating that a social situation which is presented as inevitable is actually contingent, is essentially indissociable from the critique of metaphysics, the latter being understood as the illusory manufacturing of nece ...