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Foundational Ism Basic Beliefs
1,507 wordsHowever, Craigs methods of objection to Nozick's theory are fruitful at least in three ways. First, on the proposed generalization of Craigs hypothesis, Ss belief that p has some positive epistemic status just in case S is a creditable informant with respect to the issue whether p. But if S is a creditable informant, then there is something about her that makes her so. This helps to account for the widespread intuition that to possess an epistemic status with respect to a particular proposition ...
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Source Of Knowledge Point Of View
2,442 wordsEpistemology: Testimonial Knowledge. Absolutely everybody wants to know more than he knows. In order to do this he tries to obtain new knowledge from the sources or other people who really have it. Why is it so, why knowledge is so important for us? Lets imagine that we are present in the court where a case is considering. Mrs. Black says that Mr. White stole the money in her flat. The lawyer asks her if she is sure about it and she answered: I know that he stole the money, I saw him take the mo...
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Theories Of Synchronic Part 1
1,694 wordsTheories of Synchronic Justification Absolutely everybody wants to know more than he knows. In order to do this he tries to obtain new knowledge from the sources or other people who really have it. Why is it so, why knowledge is so important for us? Lets imagine that we are present in the court where a case is considering. Mrs. Black says that Mr. White stole the money in her flat. The lawyer asks her if she is sure about it and she answered: I know that he stole the money, I saw him take the mo...
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Sources Of Knowledge Source Of Knowledge
1,700 words... nature and scope of justification and knowledge, " Here Audi studies the specific nature of scientific, moral, and religious knowledge. Robert Audi is a representative of fallibility and he argues that some or even all claims to knowledge can be mistaken. Audi defines two different kinds of beliefs: perceptual and inferential. An example of the perceptual is I hear chirping outside the window. An example of an inferential belief is, Birds are outside the window because I hear chirping. These...
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Foundational Ism True Belief
2,974 wordsIn Knowledge and Skepticism, Nozick provides an explanation of knowledge as tracking, of how belief should and should not vary with the truth of what is believed. Nozick pursues this explanation to reveal that global skeptical arguments do not follow from particular skeptical possibilities. Nozick offers an account of propositional knowledge based on tracking, interestingly without inclusion of the traditional justification condition. Noting that a subject S may arrive at the belief that p via m...
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2,177 wordsCan Skepticism Be Defended, Perhaps In A Limited Form Introduction This essay centres around what it means to know something is true and also why it is important to distinguish between what you know and do not or can not know. The sceptic in challenging the possibility of knowing anything challenges the basis on which all epistemology is based. It is from this attack on epistemology that the defence of scepticism is seen Strong Scepticism Strong scepticism states that it is not possible to know ...
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Meditations On First Philosophy Clear And Distinct Ideas
1,566 wordsSynopsis Introduction, How do we know what we know? 2) Talk on Descartes, his line of thinking, he is a thinking thing 3) Discuss the wax passage, how and why Descartes drew his conclusions. Descartes believes clear and distinct perceptions are drawn through the mind, not the senses 4) Compare / contrast Descartes with Hume. Hume beliefs conclusions on the wax were drawn from past experiences of cause and effect, gained through the senses. 5) Conclusion How do we know what we know? Ideas reside ...
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