Questions tagged [foundationalism]
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What are the most rational basic beliefs?
I understand that this question might be difficult or even unresolved. But within a foundationalist view of knowledge, has anyone proposed a set of basic beliefs that seem to be the most rational for ...
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Is the Münchhausen trilemma really a trilemma?
It claims there are three options of which none of them are satisfying.
Circular argument doesn't prove anything because it's just when the premise is the same as the conclusion.
x ∵ x
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Is the beginning of Hegel's philosophy an example of foundationalism?
one preliminary remark: this post could be of interest to anyone engaging with the thought of Hegel (especially his theoretical philosophy) or who is interested in fundamental metaphysical problems.
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How does Epistemology show that it's not a language game?
I'm looking for pointers towards texts that treat the issue of "doing philosophy with language" as a foundational problem-- which must be justified in order to go on and make meaningful statements ...
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Why isn't Descartes using psychologism?
Descartes says "I think therefore I am", isn't he using psychologism, by using a personal experience of thinking?
I had read someone claim he was against foundationalism, or specifically psychologism....
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Cartesian Skepticism within a Coherentist Epistemology
I recently decided that it is high time I reacquaint myself with the early moderns, and I thought there could be no better place to start with than Descartes' Mediations on First Philosophy. Reading ...
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Is G.E. Moore's here-is-one-hand argument a bit naive?
Are G.E. Moore, etc., a bit naive at times? (see here-is-one-hand argument).
Does such trivial thing really need "formalization"? Why isn't Moore accused of idealism, when he could be interpreted as ...
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Does current metaphysics answer Jacobi's critique of foundationalism?
F. H. Jacobi (Wikipedia) argued in the late 18th century against Kant that any foundation of knowledge will inevitably lead to an infinite regression of justifications (thus any foundation of ...
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Is Philosophy the source of all other fields of study?
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I started a self-education plan to learn computer science from foundations. then, I found my self in need to learn electrical engineering, after that I understant that I should learn Physics ...
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Was Aquinas a foundationalist?
Foundationalism is, generally speaking, the belief that a group of undoubtable beliefs 'ground,' or 'justify' other beliefs.
As of late, foundationalism has fallen out of favor in many different ...
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Alternatives to Axiomatic Method
In his article The Pernicious Influence of Mathematics upon Philosophy (see Chapter 12 of this book) Rota says (my emphasis),
The axiomatic method of mathematics is one of the great achievements
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Are "being 1" and "being 2" basic concepts of our mind?
Everytime a mathematician uses the concept of function or relation he is dealing with the concept of "being 2": he's relating one object to another.
Everytime we use a logical conjuction we are ...
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Are universal skepticism and foundationalism at odds?
As I understand it, universal skepticism says that everything is uncertain. For example, you can't even say that you are sure that 1=1 because it depends upon your notion of equality. There are no ...
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How far can/should one press philosophical doubt?
Should we keep on questioning until nothing is left to question or is there a point on which we need to stand (which we often tend to do)? Descartes used 'I think' as this fixed point where the ...
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Correctness of an argument inversely correlated to length?
How do we label the idea that the likely correctness of an argument or theory decreases with the size of the exposition required to expound it?
Let me make a probabilistic analogy. Suppose we have a ...
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