Intuition, Entitlement and the Epistemology of Logical Laws
... Boghossian puts it, blind reasoning—reasoning uninformed by self-conscious logical policing—may be knowledge-conferring. And if that is a possibility, might it not be that one can blindly infer to knowledge of logic itself ? It is an arresting thought. But Boghossian is, of course, vividly aware tha ...
... Boghossian puts it, blind reasoning—reasoning uninformed by self-conscious logical policing—may be knowledge-conferring. And if that is a possibility, might it not be that one can blindly infer to knowledge of logic itself ? It is an arresting thought. But Boghossian is, of course, vividly aware tha ...
CLASSICAL FOUNDATIONALISM
... E1 makes likely P, which we would need to infer from some proposition F1, which we would need to infer from some proposition F2, and so on ad infinitum. We would also need to justifiably believe that F1 makes it likely that E1 makes likely P, which we would need to infer from some G1, which we would ...
... E1 makes likely P, which we would need to infer from some proposition F1, which we would need to infer from some proposition F2, and so on ad infinitum. We would also need to justifiably believe that F1 makes it likely that E1 makes likely P, which we would need to infer from some G1, which we would ...
The Implications for the Principle of Bivalence of Accepting Truth as
... can happily conclude that, for instance, moral propositions are false. The reason is, quite simply, according to Error theorists, that the world is such that it does not accommodate some of our propositions (in the sense of providing something like truth conditions or verification conditions). If it ...
... can happily conclude that, for instance, moral propositions are false. The reason is, quite simply, according to Error theorists, that the world is such that it does not accommodate some of our propositions (in the sense of providing something like truth conditions or verification conditions). If it ...
Can Activist Scholars Learn Research Methods from Rumi
... One of our lived realities today is the dominance Euro-American ways of thinking and being, institutions and ideologies, scholarship and activism. As shorthand we may refer this dominant way of thinking and being as ‘modernity’ without getting into definitional debates.5 Communication of counter-cul ...
... One of our lived realities today is the dominance Euro-American ways of thinking and being, institutions and ideologies, scholarship and activism. As shorthand we may refer this dominant way of thinking and being as ‘modernity’ without getting into definitional debates.5 Communication of counter-cul ...
Person, Eros, Critical Ontology
... time of Heraclitus (with his famous quotation: ‘for if we are in communion with each other, we are in truth, but if we exist privately, we are in error’)1 to that of Gregory Palamas, at the very least. According to Yannaras, apophaticism is the stance towards the verification of knowledge that under ...
... time of Heraclitus (with his famous quotation: ‘for if we are in communion with each other, we are in truth, but if we exist privately, we are in error’)1 to that of Gregory Palamas, at the very least. According to Yannaras, apophaticism is the stance towards the verification of knowledge that under ...
Frege`s theory of sense
... For suppose that senses did not obey this criterion. Then it would be possible for a rational subject to consider two sentences with the same sense, and hold one to be true and the other false; but then the same arguments used to show that cognitive significance must be explained in terms of someth ...
... For suppose that senses did not obey this criterion. Then it would be possible for a rational subject to consider two sentences with the same sense, and hold one to be true and the other false; but then the same arguments used to show that cognitive significance must be explained in terms of someth ...
PDF File - Online Journal of Communication and Media
... change of the knowledge. Two questions having a similar meaning might be asked to observe a change of the knowledge; the second question should only slightly (just-noticeably) differ from the first one to remain within limits of the considered topic. It might be formulated, for example, as follows: ...
... change of the knowledge. Two questions having a similar meaning might be asked to observe a change of the knowledge; the second question should only slightly (just-noticeably) differ from the first one to remain within limits of the considered topic. It might be formulated, for example, as follows: ...
John Francis Nieto - Thomas Aquinas College
... the blame from himself to the arguments and to go on all the rest of his life hating and railing at arguments, while deprived of the truth and knowledge of things. 13 Notice that here Socrates has identified the cause of misology. The discussion of misanthropy assumed rightly that men are rarely ver ...
... the blame from himself to the arguments and to go on all the rest of his life hating and railing at arguments, while deprived of the truth and knowledge of things. 13 Notice that here Socrates has identified the cause of misology. The discussion of misanthropy assumed rightly that men are rarely ver ...
The origin of concepts and the nature of knowledge revision boo
... It fits with our experience of the acquisition of ideas – we acquire ideas of things as we experience them, and not before (Locke). It explains why people who lack certain kinds of sensation also lack the corresponding ideas – e.g. why blind people have no ideas of colours, and deaf people no id ...
... It fits with our experience of the acquisition of ideas – we acquire ideas of things as we experience them, and not before (Locke). It explains why people who lack certain kinds of sensation also lack the corresponding ideas – e.g. why blind people have no ideas of colours, and deaf people no id ...
Philosophy 165: Epistemology
... Answer: False. The quartet solutions are attempts to meet the Gettier-type example in accepting the tripartite analysis as part of the full account of knowledge but include a necessary fourth condition. Together the four conditions would provide the complete analysis of knowledge, containing both it ...
... Answer: False. The quartet solutions are attempts to meet the Gettier-type example in accepting the tripartite analysis as part of the full account of knowledge but include a necessary fourth condition. Together the four conditions would provide the complete analysis of knowledge, containing both it ...
OBJECTIONS TO REALISM Introduction: There are a bewildering
... were stars. Without straining ordinary usage too much, we can even say that someone unfamiliar with sonar sees submarines on the screen without realizing it. Indeed, nowhere in his book does Kuhn give us the slightest reason to suppose that the objects seen by people before scientific revolutions ar ...
... were stars. Without straining ordinary usage too much, we can even say that someone unfamiliar with sonar sees submarines on the screen without realizing it. Indeed, nowhere in his book does Kuhn give us the slightest reason to suppose that the objects seen by people before scientific revolutions ar ...
How do logic and argument play a role in developing humour
... Cartoon reprinted with permission of the cartoonist, Kris Wilson, © www.explosm.net ...
... Cartoon reprinted with permission of the cartoonist, Kris Wilson, © www.explosm.net ...
Lessons from Kant: On Knowledge, Morality, and Beauty
... are only aware of (some of) its derivatives. This is unfortunate, since the central elements of the original revolution are extremely enlightening. Loosely speaking, Kant’s Copernican revolution consists of placing the human (or rational) subject at the center of the philosophical study of knowledge ...
... are only aware of (some of) its derivatives. This is unfortunate, since the central elements of the original revolution are extremely enlightening. Loosely speaking, Kant’s Copernican revolution consists of placing the human (or rational) subject at the center of the philosophical study of knowledge ...
M METHO ODOL LOGY
... dilemma between whether history is a study of human affairs in the past or that of the natural events. By discovering manuscripts or by recovering the details of any significant happening, a historian may choose to develop a narrative – an account of what happened in terms of the sequence of events. ...
... dilemma between whether history is a study of human affairs in the past or that of the natural events. By discovering manuscripts or by recovering the details of any significant happening, a historian may choose to develop a narrative – an account of what happened in terms of the sequence of events. ...
Contradiction In Madhyamaka Buddhist Argumentation
... mitigate. Thus statements with the form of a contradiction may function quite differently in the Buddhist context. They need not generate the implicature that the subject matter of the statement is ineffable and accessible only through some special non-discursive faculty. They may instead generate t ...
... mitigate. Thus statements with the form of a contradiction may function quite differently in the Buddhist context. They need not generate the implicature that the subject matter of the statement is ineffable and accessible only through some special non-discursive faculty. They may instead generate t ...
An Evaluation of Paul Churchland`s Responses to The Knowledge
... Maybe Churchland’s criticisms of the Mary story later in The Rediscovery of Light can stand on their own two feet, without the assistance of his parody argument. In his commentary on the Luminance Argument, Paul Churchland notes that there are at least two kinds of knowledge. In What Mary Didn’t Kno ...
... Maybe Churchland’s criticisms of the Mary story later in The Rediscovery of Light can stand on their own two feet, without the assistance of his parody argument. In his commentary on the Luminance Argument, Paul Churchland notes that there are at least two kinds of knowledge. In What Mary Didn’t Kno ...
Rene Descartes
... Review the entire chain of thinking to ensure nothing is omitted. The first rule is probably the best known, as it is boldly expressed in the opening paragraphs of Descartes‟ Meditations on First Philosophy, perhaps the most important book of the modern period. Descartes hopes to secure a firm found ...
... Review the entire chain of thinking to ensure nothing is omitted. The first rule is probably the best known, as it is boldly expressed in the opening paragraphs of Descartes‟ Meditations on First Philosophy, perhaps the most important book of the modern period. Descartes hopes to secure a firm found ...
Why Hume and Kant were mistaken in rejecting natural theology
... catalogue). But despite his crude theory of thinking, Hume may have been correct in the general point he was trying to make, that – as a contingent fact7- we think only by means of concepts derived (in some sense) from our experience of their application to (the internal or external) world . As the ...
... catalogue). But despite his crude theory of thinking, Hume may have been correct in the general point he was trying to make, that – as a contingent fact7- we think only by means of concepts derived (in some sense) from our experience of their application to (the internal or external) world . As the ...
Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind 1
... spontaneous reports are reliable. • Logical atomists can move to sense data reports to defend their position. But their commitment to sense contents is not supported by anything in Sellars’ treatment of looks talk, so these folk will have to haul their own water if they want to ...
... spontaneous reports are reliable. • Logical atomists can move to sense data reports to defend their position. But their commitment to sense contents is not supported by anything in Sellars’ treatment of looks talk, so these folk will have to haul their own water if they want to ...
Between Probability and Certainty
... risk of error than we would in believing this on the basis of the statistical evidence. As such, the risk minimisation conception straightforwardly predicts that the latter belief should be more justified than the former. Yet this would seem to be the very opposite of the truth. Maybe there is nothi ...
... risk of error than we would in believing this on the basis of the statistical evidence. As such, the risk minimisation conception straightforwardly predicts that the latter belief should be more justified than the former. Yet this would seem to be the very opposite of the truth. Maybe there is nothi ...
In the history of philosophy, Francis Bacon is credited with the
... content, perhaps unspeakable but central to the felt experience of manifesting dignity, joy, and contingent freedoms. (x-xi) While this epistemological insight is not in-itself new, what distinguishes Shotwell’s contribution from that of other similar projects is her insistence on a four-part divisi ...
... content, perhaps unspeakable but central to the felt experience of manifesting dignity, joy, and contingent freedoms. (x-xi) While this epistemological insight is not in-itself new, what distinguishes Shotwell’s contribution from that of other similar projects is her insistence on a four-part divisi ...
PHI 110 Lecture 16 1 Hello and welcome to what will be the first of
... a radical skeptical sect that belongs to the Hellenistic period of ancient Greece. So there was a radical sect of skeptics in the Hellenistic period in the ancient world which held a view very much like this. They were called the Pyrrhonists. Their view was called Pyrrhonism. Those modern 18th centu ...
... a radical skeptical sect that belongs to the Hellenistic period of ancient Greece. So there was a radical sect of skeptics in the Hellenistic period in the ancient world which held a view very much like this. They were called the Pyrrhonists. Their view was called Pyrrhonism. Those modern 18th centu ...
Actionable Knowledge
... Let it be noted that the above network of assumptions has a clear similarity to the well-known series of “if...then...else” statements often expressed as logical conditions in algorithmic programming languages. Similar statements are also found in modern knowledge-based systems incorporating artific ...
... Let it be noted that the above network of assumptions has a clear similarity to the well-known series of “if...then...else” statements often expressed as logical conditions in algorithmic programming languages. Similar statements are also found in modern knowledge-based systems incorporating artific ...
Review of Peter Loptson, Reality: Fundamental Topics in Metaphysics
... of the concept of identity imply that between the so-called "two" things there is a relation that might be called identity. Let us consider some cases so simple that if such a relation were present it would surely be readily discernible. I am now reading this page of my paper. Is the page I am hold ...
... of the concept of identity imply that between the so-called "two" things there is a relation that might be called identity. Let us consider some cases so simple that if such a relation were present it would surely be readily discernible. I am now reading this page of my paper. Is the page I am hold ...
THE UNTRUTH AND THE TRUTH OF SKEPTICISM
... such a relation were present it would surely be readily discernible. I am now reading this page of my paper. Is the page I am holding now in my hands the same as the page I held a few moments ago? Of course. I have no doubt that it is. But is my confidence based on my discerning a relation of ident ...
... such a relation were present it would surely be readily discernible. I am now reading this page of my paper. Is the page I am holding now in my hands the same as the page I held a few moments ago? Of course. I have no doubt that it is. But is my confidence based on my discerning a relation of ident ...