Questions tagged [epistemology]
Epistemology is the study of knowledge, acquisition thereof, and the justification of belief in a given claim.
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How to avoid radical skepticism?
Whenever I try to solve a problem philosophically, I always end up at radical skepticism, where the solution is unprovable. I understand that skepticism leads nowhere, but I always tend to seek ...
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What was realizable through Immanuel Kant's work?
In field of epistemology critics quote Immanuel Kant as a revolutionary thinker.
Immanuel Kant summary below.
Human knowledge is possible because the mind actively structures experience through a ...
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What does Popper's principle of transference mean?
What exactly does Karl Popper's principle of transference mean?
What is true in logic is true in psychology (Popper, K. 1972. Objective Knowledge, p. 6)
There is a multitude of counterintuitive (i.e....
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What is the perspective of major philosophers on classifying loss from a tragic standpoint?
Over the past three days I was engaged in a long discussion with my friends We began with the question: What are the classifications of human tragedies?
After hours of debate on the first day we ...
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Is there a difference between "quantitative" and "qualitative" data?
I have seen ample talk both on here and in many philosophy articles that talk of probability may not make sense without objective, historical data.
For example, L. von Mises in Probability, Statistics ...
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Are quarks indivisible? Or, could 'empty space' be the smallest object?
I've been thinking about the concept of the "smallest" possible object in the universe. While quarks are currently considered fundamental particles in the standard model of particle physics, ...
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How to deal with uncertainty and speak in uncertain terms?
So, I'm trying to find out how to speak in uncertain terms and deal with uncertainty. Rather than being stuck in I believe "x" and "y" and maintain them as having the same ...
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Emergentism as first principle
The first principles approach is the same as deducing all knowledge claims from axioms which cannot be derived from more fundamental axioms. This is the same as what we have called axiomatic inquiry, ...
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Is reporting or transmitting knowledge by acquaintance (Russell) itself a form of description?
Russell famously argued that knowledge by acquaintance is possible and that it has the following features:
It is direct awareness of an object, without inference.
It is non-propositional and non-...
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What is knowledge? [duplicate]
I've been contemplating about this questions for decades now, and finally came into conclusions in the form of philosophical framework called Cogito Praesens.
I'm seeking a good, but simple ...
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Have there been any recent defenses of classical foundationalism?
I am looking for a recent (less than 10 years old) published academic defense of classical foundationalism. By classical foundationalism, I mean the strong (Cartesian) version of doctrine, where all ...
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Are humans epistemically qualified to make decisions for other animals? [closed]
Humans frequently enact irreversible interventions affecting nonhuman animals, encompassing a broad range of actions from ecological management to medical or behavioral modifications. These ...
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Is time an event? [closed]
Extension of this question.
Is time just perceived event?
Concretely calling it numbering the change of states of any form.
Perceived event means compared relatively by common events such as sun rise ...
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Can poetry be substantively conducive to philosophy?
I'm wondering if there are any thinkers who take poetry or literature to be meaningfully insightful into the world (beyond just the literary aspect of writing or whatnot). But like, is there a way ...
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Analytic vs. continental approaches to knowledge and Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem
My main question relates to what is unknowable and unprovable, although I'm not sure proof is even the right word to use in philosophy. I am not educated in philosophy in any way so in advance sorry ...
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