Questions tagged [munchhausens-trilemma]
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Are two persons equally rational in choosing different dogmatic stopping points in their chains of justification as per the Münchhausen trilemma?
In epistemology, the Münchhausen trilemma is a thought experiment
intended to demonstrate the theoretical impossibility of proving any
truth, even in the fields of logic and mathematics, without ...
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Is everything a gamble?
Is every position in philosophy ultimately a bet or a gamble?
Given Munchhausen’s trilemma there is no way to absolutely justify anything. As stated, he thought these were the three ways to prove ...