Interactive Knowledge Frontier Discovery with COBWEB-KFD Steve Talbert, RN, PhD
... information are withheld so that they do not influence the clustering process. The clustering process is guided by COBWEB’s acuity and cutoff parameters. The second step performs a bottom-up search of the hierarchy and is guided by an alpha parameter that allows the user to bias the search for front ...
... information are withheld so that they do not influence the clustering process. The clustering process is guided by COBWEB’s acuity and cutoff parameters. The second step performs a bottom-up search of the hierarchy and is guided by an alpha parameter that allows the user to bias the search for front ...
The Dominant Islamic Philosophy of Knowledge
... 2. The Status of Beliefs and the Conception of the World The best way to understand a certain culture is to compare it with a different culture. From this perspective, it is useful to compare the Arab-Islamic culture with the Western culture in order to clarify certain important aspects of the forme ...
... 2. The Status of Beliefs and the Conception of the World The best way to understand a certain culture is to compare it with a different culture. From this perspective, it is useful to compare the Arab-Islamic culture with the Western culture in order to clarify certain important aspects of the forme ...
John Locke and the Changing Ideal of Scientific Knowledge
... There are two main reasons why Boyle thought that our knowledge of the physical world is always subject to error and consequently lacks even the moral certainty we have in the case of theology. First, scientific theories are ultimately based on fundamental principles, such as "ex nihilo nihil fit," ...
... There are two main reasons why Boyle thought that our knowledge of the physical world is always subject to error and consequently lacks even the moral certainty we have in the case of theology. First, scientific theories are ultimately based on fundamental principles, such as "ex nihilo nihil fit," ...
Minimal Epistemology: Beyond Terminal Philosophy to Truth
... social constructivism. All are untenable, when denied their transitivity-presupposing circularity and regress arguments. Minimal epistemology starts by conceding to the skeptic, provisionally, not only that nothing is known, but that nothing is justified even in the weak sense of being merely more l ...
... social constructivism. All are untenable, when denied their transitivity-presupposing circularity and regress arguments. Minimal epistemology starts by conceding to the skeptic, provisionally, not only that nothing is known, but that nothing is justified even in the weak sense of being merely more l ...
Pragmatism Lite - NYU Philosophy
... claim about what beliefs are; it is rather to make a historical claim about how they come into existence. The thought is that what we believe is not to be explained by the way the world is or by the available evidence, but rather by the fact that some of our beliefs turn out to be more useful than o ...
... claim about what beliefs are; it is rather to make a historical claim about how they come into existence. The thought is that what we believe is not to be explained by the way the world is or by the available evidence, but rather by the fact that some of our beliefs turn out to be more useful than o ...
The Rationalist - Cengage Learning
... should confine ourselves to what we can clearly intuit and deduce with certainty for ourselves.” For when we accept views solely on the weight of the authority or prestige of those who hold them, we become non-rational at best. We should order our thinking and, instead of becoming memorizers, become ...
... should confine ourselves to what we can clearly intuit and deduce with certainty for ourselves.” For when we accept views solely on the weight of the authority or prestige of those who hold them, we become non-rational at best. We should order our thinking and, instead of becoming memorizers, become ...
Apr 7
... sutras 24-28 in Vidyabhusana's enumeration)—see notes for the class on 17 March—discusses the concept of “justified beliefs,” siddhanta, positions that are accepted and have been proved (badly translated by Vidyabhusana as “dogma”). The sixth-century commentator Uddyotakara says explicitly in this c ...
... sutras 24-28 in Vidyabhusana's enumeration)—see notes for the class on 17 March—discusses the concept of “justified beliefs,” siddhanta, positions that are accepted and have been proved (badly translated by Vidyabhusana as “dogma”). The sixth-century commentator Uddyotakara says explicitly in this c ...
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... really do happen, or are only said to happen for the sake of common believers, they will by definition not fall within the realm of scientific, Aristotelian discourse: ‘it is necessary to say about [the shari’a] that its principles are divine matters transcending human intellects, and they must be r ...
... really do happen, or are only said to happen for the sake of common believers, they will by definition not fall within the realm of scientific, Aristotelian discourse: ‘it is necessary to say about [the shari’a] that its principles are divine matters transcending human intellects, and they must be r ...
1. The Opening Sentence
... themselves educated (or perhaps even enlightened): and these are the (future) teachers. An educated person reasons well, and can think autonomously. Hence, since good teachers master their subject, they can teach metaphysics only if they can think independently (undogmatically), and have developed t ...
... themselves educated (or perhaps even enlightened): and these are the (future) teachers. An educated person reasons well, and can think autonomously. Hence, since good teachers master their subject, they can teach metaphysics only if they can think independently (undogmatically), and have developed t ...
Epistemology and ontology in SL research Graham Crookes
... once the first position has taken hold of the label “realist”, is presumably “anti-realist”. At this point those opposed to the first position are immediately backed into a corner by the “common-sense” question, “surely you are not saying that this world does not exist?”. The response is to say, ind ...
... once the first position has taken hold of the label “realist”, is presumably “anti-realist”. At this point those opposed to the first position are immediately backed into a corner by the “common-sense” question, “surely you are not saying that this world does not exist?”. The response is to say, ind ...
Knowing justice and acting justly What is the source of virtue in
... So Plato’s argument that philosophers should be rulers depends on his arguments about how knowledge and virtue are linked. In the handout on ‘Philosophers, knowledge, and virtue’, we raised the objection that it is not certain that studying philosophy and the Forms will make someone virtuous. A seco ...
... So Plato’s argument that philosophers should be rulers depends on his arguments about how knowledge and virtue are linked. In the handout on ‘Philosophers, knowledge, and virtue’, we raised the objection that it is not certain that studying philosophy and the Forms will make someone virtuous. A seco ...
Ionian Philosophers
... 1. To assure himself that he does not hold as true anything that is false he set himself to doubt everything: “Because I wished to give myself entirely to the search after truth, I thought it was necessary for me…to reject as absolutely false everything concerning which I could imagine the least gro ...
... 1. To assure himself that he does not hold as true anything that is false he set himself to doubt everything: “Because I wished to give myself entirely to the search after truth, I thought it was necessary for me…to reject as absolutely false everything concerning which I could imagine the least gro ...
8. Handout on Plato`s Theory of Forms - Elly Pirocacos
... objects, but with the objects themselves. Since these objects (perhaps because they are subject to different laws) are imperfect (constantly altering in appearance and never quite black, equal and so on), and knowledge is possible, it follows that there must be other kinds of objects that give rise ...
... objects, but with the objects themselves. Since these objects (perhaps because they are subject to different laws) are imperfect (constantly altering in appearance and never quite black, equal and so on), and knowledge is possible, it follows that there must be other kinds of objects that give rise ...
KANT`S RESPONSE TO SKEPTICISM
... handling transcendental arguments is called for, which, rather than trying to respond to Stroud’s concerns by using transcendental idealism, does not attempt to cross his ‘‘bridge of necessity’’ at all; instead, it allows that the only necessary conditions we can establish concern how we must think ...
... handling transcendental arguments is called for, which, rather than trying to respond to Stroud’s concerns by using transcendental idealism, does not attempt to cross his ‘‘bridge of necessity’’ at all; instead, it allows that the only necessary conditions we can establish concern how we must think ...
dworkin on external skepticism
... are false: they insist that anyone who says that the Iraq war was immoral has made a philosophical mistake. Status skeptics disagree. They believe that it is a mistake to suppose that any moral judgment can be either true or false . . . . Status skeptics insist that we understand moral judgments as ...
... are false: they insist that anyone who says that the Iraq war was immoral has made a philosophical mistake. Status skeptics disagree. They believe that it is a mistake to suppose that any moral judgment can be either true or false . . . . Status skeptics insist that we understand moral judgments as ...
Asian Philosophy CH. 10 of AP
... as sufficient to account for error. Rather, they hold that there is no mistake in the perception, there is a mistake in the relationship between what is seen and the predicate applied. There is a relationship error between the object seen, this here now, and the predicate applied, snake. One is appl ...
... as sufficient to account for error. Rather, they hold that there is no mistake in the perception, there is a mistake in the relationship between what is seen and the predicate applied. There is a relationship error between the object seen, this here now, and the predicate applied, snake. One is appl ...
Epistemology Dehumanized
... merely believe, that God exists, yet recognize that we do not. So we look for “evidences” of his existence. In the courtroom, a verdict of guilt or innocence may be mandatory, though neither guilt nor innocence is self-evident or made evident by anything that is selfevident. So we look for something ...
... merely believe, that God exists, yet recognize that we do not. So we look for “evidences” of his existence. In the courtroom, a verdict of guilt or innocence may be mandatory, though neither guilt nor innocence is self-evident or made evident by anything that is selfevident. So we look for something ...
What is Philosophy
... Thus ordinary language philosophers are not linguists, they are not interested in ordinary language for its own sake, but for the help that it gives in understanding philosophical questions. An understanding of this point makes it clear why philosophers are interested only in a very small number of ...
... Thus ordinary language philosophers are not linguists, they are not interested in ordinary language for its own sake, but for the help that it gives in understanding philosophical questions. An understanding of this point makes it clear why philosophers are interested only in a very small number of ...
Moore, the Skeptic, and the Philosophical Context
... G. E. Moore’s peculiar arguments against skepticism1 have never ceased to intrigue philosophers since they were first presented half a century ago. Although the arguments have been analyzed, criticized, or defended for many times now, there is still no agreement on how they should be understood.2 On ...
... G. E. Moore’s peculiar arguments against skepticism1 have never ceased to intrigue philosophers since they were first presented half a century ago. Although the arguments have been analyzed, criticized, or defended for many times now, there is still no agreement on how they should be understood.2 On ...
Refining Reid`s Principle of Credulity
... A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science. Russell’s admonition apples to ph ...
... A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science. Russell’s admonition apples to ph ...
doc the problems with philosophy
... -we doubt physical existence, but we cannot doubt sense data -if we put a table cloth that completely covers the table—if the table were mere sense data, the table would cease to exist and the table would be suspended by empty air -10 people around a table it is absurd to think that everybody is lo ...
... -we doubt physical existence, but we cannot doubt sense data -if we put a table cloth that completely covers the table—if the table were mere sense data, the table would cease to exist and the table would be suspended by empty air -10 people around a table it is absurd to think that everybody is lo ...
Rene Descartes Handout #1 Historical
... The Evil Demon Argument: The evil demon argument has the same general structure as the dream argument. This time, though, the possibility under consideration is the existence of an all-powerful, malevolent being who controls are minds and makes us have the thoughts we do. He could control our though ...
... The Evil Demon Argument: The evil demon argument has the same general structure as the dream argument. This time, though, the possibility under consideration is the existence of an all-powerful, malevolent being who controls are minds and makes us have the thoughts we do. He could control our though ...
Was Pyrrho the Founder of Skepticism?
... traditions. In order to gain acceptance for his philosophy, Arcesilaus had to show his precursors to be Socrates and Plato. Differences also existed. Pyrrho’s skepticism with gave “no reason to engage in philosophical argument” (LS, 446). For him skepticism was a way of life, but for Arcesilaus it w ...
... traditions. In order to gain acceptance for his philosophy, Arcesilaus had to show his precursors to be Socrates and Plato. Differences also existed. Pyrrho’s skepticism with gave “no reason to engage in philosophical argument” (LS, 446). For him skepticism was a way of life, but for Arcesilaus it w ...
epistemological puzzles alexandru anghelescu, laurenţiu rozylowicz
... This is the ideal moment zero when humans started to know. The first thing humans have to do at M0 is to start making differences: “to construct” the objects, to say so. But this may be impossible at M0, because ...
... This is the ideal moment zero when humans started to know. The first thing humans have to do at M0 is to start making differences: “to construct” the objects, to say so. But this may be impossible at M0, because ...