Timeline for If we keep asking "why" are we guaranteed to end up in one of the three states of the Münchhausen Trilemma?
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| Jan 7 at 14:20 | comment | added | Dcleve | Pierce founded pragmatism as a philosophy movement, and James built on it, as well as founding Psychology as a science. Both wrote on a lot of subjects, both articles and books. Not online, they mostly wrote in the late 1800s. I had included Poppers autobiography, which is also a book. Popper wrote on his political philosophy, Thr Open Society and its Enemies, and also wrote the best defense of dualism I have found, The Self and Its Brain. Both books. You will find uncertainty laced thru all of Poppers work. He died in the 1990s, so not much online either. | |
| Jan 7 at 2:16 | comment | added | Fraser Pye | what books are there too read, or is it just online articles? Does any of these investigate the nature of truth in general or just scientific truth, since I already had that view on scientific truth. | |
| Jan 7 at 2:09 | comment | added | Dcleve | @FraserPye Popper noted that all science thinking is tentative hypotheses. We accept them as useful working theories. All “facts” are hypotheses we have a lot of confidence in, but no fact is certain. | |
| Jan 7 at 2:07 | comment | added | Dcleve | Charles Pierce was the first recent advocate of this view, and it was picked up by William James and Karl Popper. Poppers autobiography, Unended Quest, is the easiest entry point to his thinking. | |
| Jan 7 at 1:18 | comment | added | Fraser Pye | Is every truth "tentative", can you explain this idea, I like it. Is there anywhere I can read about this? Will we ever know a concrete "truth"? | |
| Jan 6 at 18:18 | history | answered | Dcleve | CC BY-SA 4.0 |