Intro to Philosophy
... To say that a claim is rationally defensible does not necessarily mean that it is true or has been proved true. A claim that is rationally defensible in the strong sense is one that has good reasons supporting it. The support may be so strong as to remove all doubt (& thus prove with certainty) that ...
... To say that a claim is rationally defensible does not necessarily mean that it is true or has been proved true. A claim that is rationally defensible in the strong sense is one that has good reasons supporting it. The support may be so strong as to remove all doubt (& thus prove with certainty) that ...
A Critical Analysis of Empiricism
... known without inference are facts known by perception or memory, that is to say, through experience. In this respect the empiricist’s principle calls for no limitation. But our knowledge is not confined to perception or memory alone (Russell, 1961). We admit the validity of scientific knowledge whic ...
... known without inference are facts known by perception or memory, that is to say, through experience. In this respect the empiricist’s principle calls for no limitation. But our knowledge is not confined to perception or memory alone (Russell, 1961). We admit the validity of scientific knowledge whic ...
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Peirce What Pragmatism Is [DOC]
... b. Truths have a greater tendency to get believed than falsities have, otherwise, given that there are many more false propositions about something than true, finding the one truth would be a miracle. c. “when my window was opened, because of the truth that stuffy air is malsain, a physical effort w ...
... b. Truths have a greater tendency to get believed than falsities have, otherwise, given that there are many more false propositions about something than true, finding the one truth would be a miracle. c. “when my window was opened, because of the truth that stuffy air is malsain, a physical effort w ...
Rationalist Epistemology
... • A well-ordered, good, soul is one in which Reason rules. Such a soul, at its best, exercises virtue effortlessly as a result of the transformative experience of Goodness itself. Such a soul is psychically integrated, happiest, sanest, most moral, most free, and most fully human. Plato’s answer to ...
... • A well-ordered, good, soul is one in which Reason rules. Such a soul, at its best, exercises virtue effortlessly as a result of the transformative experience of Goodness itself. Such a soul is psychically integrated, happiest, sanest, most moral, most free, and most fully human. Plato’s answer to ...
This dissertation is a critique of three strands of recent
... skepticism by showing that skeptical doubts are themselves scientific. I argue that Quine’s strategy is not meant to answer skepticism by showing our beliefs to be logically justified after all, but by showing that they are at the very least pragmatically justified. Naturalized epistemology, then, c ...
... skepticism by showing that skeptical doubts are themselves scientific. I argue that Quine’s strategy is not meant to answer skepticism by showing our beliefs to be logically justified after all, but by showing that they are at the very least pragmatically justified. Naturalized epistemology, then, c ...
The Scope of Interdisciplinary Collaboration
... possibly we could get out of the experience. And then, thirdly, there is Professor Mohr's very eloquent existentialist critique of modem social science. Perhaps I can make my position known very briefly by beginning with the last point and then working back to the first two. In case any of you are u ...
... possibly we could get out of the experience. And then, thirdly, there is Professor Mohr's very eloquent existentialist critique of modem social science. Perhaps I can make my position known very briefly by beginning with the last point and then working back to the first two. In case any of you are u ...
Bertrand Russell (1872
... There is no proof that there is only one coherent system of beliefs. In fact, it seems that, in various fields, there is more than one coherent body of beliefs. The concept of coherence is based on the laws of logic (e.g., the law of non-contradiction); but the laws of logic “themselves cannot be es ...
... There is no proof that there is only one coherent system of beliefs. In fact, it seems that, in various fields, there is more than one coherent body of beliefs. The concept of coherence is based on the laws of logic (e.g., the law of non-contradiction); but the laws of logic “themselves cannot be es ...
The “Idyllic Sublime”: Point/Counterpoint A Dialog between Michael
... from Webster’s), “to make romantic: add romance to,” with the example given, “old forms of drudgery are romanticized, old forms of slavery forgotten” (H.J.Muller) and “rebuke the press for alleged romanticizing of gangsterism” (F.L.Mott). The intransitive verb is defined as “1 : to hold romantic id ...
... from Webster’s), “to make romantic: add romance to,” with the example given, “old forms of drudgery are romanticized, old forms of slavery forgotten” (H.J.Muller) and “rebuke the press for alleged romanticizing of gangsterism” (F.L.Mott). The intransitive verb is defined as “1 : to hold romantic id ...
epistemology - mrsmcfadyensspace
... that knowledge is possible – that we can gain knowledge by various means. • One of the reasons for studying Philosophy is, after all, that you want to have knowledge of Philosophy. But you also want to have knowledge of many other things: whether it will rain today; what books you need for your cour ...
... that knowledge is possible – that we can gain knowledge by various means. • One of the reasons for studying Philosophy is, after all, that you want to have knowledge of Philosophy. But you also want to have knowledge of many other things: whether it will rain today; what books you need for your cour ...
The Method – Analysis and Criticisms
... possibility that I am the victim of some extremely complex hoax. But this remote possibility cannot undermine my ability to know. For we can always think of weird possibilities – dreaming and demons – that would undermine what I think to be true and this would mean that we don’t know anything. This ...
... possibility that I am the victim of some extremely complex hoax. But this remote possibility cannot undermine my ability to know. For we can always think of weird possibilities – dreaming and demons – that would undermine what I think to be true and this would mean that we don’t know anything. This ...
Milton`s Attitude toward Knowledge in Paradise Lost
... Of other Creatures, as him pleases best, Wherever plac’d, let him dispose: joy thou In what he gives to thee, this Paradise And thy fair Eve: Heav’n is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other Worlds, what Creatures t ...
... Of other Creatures, as him pleases best, Wherever plac’d, let him dispose: joy thou In what he gives to thee, this Paradise And thy fair Eve: Heav’n is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other Worlds, what Creatures t ...
In human life, there are many things people think they know with
... connecting it with things which we are acquainted. Thus, all our knowledge about the table is knowledge of truths, and we do not know the actual table at all. The only thing we know is that there is an actual object to which the description applies, but this object is not directly known to us. As th ...
... connecting it with things which we are acquainted. Thus, all our knowledge about the table is knowledge of truths, and we do not know the actual table at all. The only thing we know is that there is an actual object to which the description applies, but this object is not directly known to us. As th ...
Philosophical Battles Empiricism Rationalism
... 2. Morality is Innate: How do we get a sense of what right and wrong are with our five senses? Since we cannot experience things like justice, human rights, moral duties, moral good and evil with our five senses, what can the empiricist’s ethical theory like? Hume (an empiricist) says morality is ba ...
... 2. Morality is Innate: How do we get a sense of what right and wrong are with our five senses? Since we cannot experience things like justice, human rights, moral duties, moral good and evil with our five senses, what can the empiricist’s ethical theory like? Hume (an empiricist) says morality is ba ...
Reason and experience
... Descartes would probably have said that the reason we are able to know that all right angles are equal to one another is that we understand the content of the innate ideas of a right angle and of equality. But there are other possible explanations. A popular one with empiricists is that statements l ...
... Descartes would probably have said that the reason we are able to know that all right angles are equal to one another is that we understand the content of the innate ideas of a right angle and of equality. But there are other possible explanations. A popular one with empiricists is that statements l ...
How can I be sure I know something?
... Suppose you conjure up a belief that right now that Barak Obama is brushing his teeth. Imagine you actually believe this, by force of sheer will. Suppose even further by the force of mere coincidence alone that Obama has just come back from a presidential lunch and just happens to be polishing his m ...
... Suppose you conjure up a belief that right now that Barak Obama is brushing his teeth. Imagine you actually believe this, by force of sheer will. Suppose even further by the force of mere coincidence alone that Obama has just come back from a presidential lunch and just happens to be polishing his m ...
Becky Clay Dr. Doug Deaver 4-14
... justified beliefs and opinions. Because there is such a fine line between what can be called a belief and what can be classified as an opinion, there are many questions that arise. The most common of these questions are: 1) What is truth?, 2) What is knowledge?, and 3) Does knowledge exist? For ques ...
... justified beliefs and opinions. Because there is such a fine line between what can be called a belief and what can be classified as an opinion, there are many questions that arise. The most common of these questions are: 1) What is truth?, 2) What is knowledge?, and 3) Does knowledge exist? For ques ...
Paper version
... People in capitalism want to be better than their neighbors, without any regard for justice. People are biologically similar, but in the most important matters—such as maturity, initiative, creativity, and drive—people are very different. At the most basic level, people are self-centered and competi ...
... People in capitalism want to be better than their neighbors, without any regard for justice. People are biologically similar, but in the most important matters—such as maturity, initiative, creativity, and drive—people are very different. At the most basic level, people are self-centered and competi ...
Study Guide: René Descartes
... Descartes has a general purpose skeptical alternative: It could be that you are being deceived by evil demons. (This is the 17th-century version of the brain-in-a-vat case or a Matrix-type situation.) If we were in such a situation, our evidence would all be exactly the same, but our beliefs would ...
... Descartes has a general purpose skeptical alternative: It could be that you are being deceived by evil demons. (This is the 17th-century version of the brain-in-a-vat case or a Matrix-type situation.) If we were in such a situation, our evidence would all be exactly the same, but our beliefs would ...
Lesson Plan: Empiricism
... claims he is making about God and man’s relationship with him. Things should get heated as each ‘person’ holds their views strongly! And/Or the students could use resource sheet Resource Sheet 3 (and 3[LA] if needed) Aristotle to have an argument between David Hume and Aristotle who set out four typ ...
... claims he is making about God and man’s relationship with him. Things should get heated as each ‘person’ holds their views strongly! And/Or the students could use resource sheet Resource Sheet 3 (and 3[LA] if needed) Aristotle to have an argument between David Hume and Aristotle who set out four typ ...
THE PROBLEM OF KNOWLEDGE
... memory, or testimony, or other forms of evidence are reliable. And this would be a very complicated matter, if indeed it could be done at all. Moreover, we cannot assume that, even in particular instances, an answer to the question How do you know? will always be forthcoming. There may very well be ...
... memory, or testimony, or other forms of evidence are reliable. And this would be a very complicated matter, if indeed it could be done at all. Moreover, we cannot assume that, even in particular instances, an answer to the question How do you know? will always be forthcoming. There may very well be ...
1 Empiricism, Rationalism, and Plato`s Innatism Intro to Philosophy
... because they look equal.” Clearly, whoever asks this question in the first place presupposes that our visual faculty does not provide us with basic knowledge of things seen. Replying that it does, and that you know that because it consistently gives you true reports of equal-looking things, is as ci ...
... because they look equal.” Clearly, whoever asks this question in the first place presupposes that our visual faculty does not provide us with basic knowledge of things seen. Replying that it does, and that you know that because it consistently gives you true reports of equal-looking things, is as ci ...
Plato
... There is also intelligent ignorance, as when someone does not know X and acknowledges forthrightly that he does not know it, etc. More thought is needed on this matter…. However, Plato’s view of ignorance as having non-being (nothingness) as its object does not seem correct (or at least not ...
... There is also intelligent ignorance, as when someone does not know X and acknowledges forthrightly that he does not know it, etc. More thought is needed on this matter…. However, Plato’s view of ignorance as having non-being (nothingness) as its object does not seem correct (or at least not ...
Plato
... There is also intelligent ignorance, as when someone does not know X and acknowledges forthrightly that he does not know it, etc. More thought is needed on this matter…. However, Plato's view of ignorance as having non-being (nothingness) as its object does not seem correct (or at least not ...
... There is also intelligent ignorance, as when someone does not know X and acknowledges forthrightly that he does not know it, etc. More thought is needed on this matter…. However, Plato's view of ignorance as having non-being (nothingness) as its object does not seem correct (or at least not ...
1 “Our cabaret is a gesture. Every word that is spoken and sung here
... which knowledge can be translated, no shared value: against value. Knowledge is always in its anticipation, its deferral, or dispersive partiality. As Marilyn Strathern writes when describing the practice of listening, there is, finally, incommensurability between the scholar or student, and the peo ...
... which knowledge can be translated, no shared value: against value. Knowledge is always in its anticipation, its deferral, or dispersive partiality. As Marilyn Strathern writes when describing the practice of listening, there is, finally, incommensurability between the scholar or student, and the peo ...
Correspondence, Coherence, and Pragmatic Theories of Truth
... Theory of truth must contain an account of falsehood as well as truth. There must be beliefs in the world. Matter can’t be the only thing that exists. Truth or falsehood of a belief depends on something outside the belief itself First Feature: “(1) Our theory of truth must be such as to admit of ...
... Theory of truth must contain an account of falsehood as well as truth. There must be beliefs in the world. Matter can’t be the only thing that exists. Truth or falsehood of a belief depends on something outside the belief itself First Feature: “(1) Our theory of truth must be such as to admit of ...