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Epistemology is the study of knowledge, acquisition thereof, and the justification of belief in a given claim.
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How can we know that we're thinking?
There are many critiques of Descartes' famous phrase, see here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogito,_ergo_sum
Briefly, some attack the presupposition of an "I" (Georg Lichtenberg). Others criti …
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Is it possible to sidestep ontological claims by pivoting on epistemological ones?
Secondly there is the epistemology first approach, here a framework for establishing knowledge is developed without reference to existing ontological objects. …
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Can you adequately discuss Philosophy, without doing philosophy?
In order to convey a philosophical idea, a speaker must regularly interpret an original work. Not only that, but subsequent to the all to frequent 'discussion', he must interpret the listener's point …
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Can Philosophy explain itself?
This question is prompted by recent questions: A short, understandable definition of philosophy and Do you need to know what philosophy is to study it?
Sciences are usually well defined, and the task …
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What is the the difference between common sense and phronesis?
For refference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_sense
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phronesis
For me this started with Giambattista Vico who pretty much had the same idea of "common sense …
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Is Truth the Primary Epistemic Goal?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology:
Epistemology is about asking the question "How?"
How do you know?
How did you find the answer? (Not, "what is the answer?") …
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What does Helmuth Plessner mean by : 'the human being is at a distance to her boundary'?
Plessner defines living organims in terms of a boundary between It and the environment.
http://helmuth-plessner.de/en/helmuth-plessner/denken/
This question concerns the following statment:
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Where is the line between Quantum Mechanics and Relativity?
Question: Is there any answers from Epistemology or philosophy-of-science?
Its often said QM is for the very small and GR for the very large. …
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The Euthyphro Dilemma (complete philosophy newbie here)
Between @Not_Here and @Conifold your bases are covered. But I think your question deserves an answer so I'll try to summarize.
First off any argument that relies on, an argument that relies on, ad in …
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Is there a logical argument for the limit of knowledge?
It is justifiable to assert that certain knowledge could not be disseminated without the invention of writing. One could say that humanity needed the knowledge of writing before further knowledge coul …
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Does Philosophy benefit from parsimony?
It is well established doctrine to apply Occam's razor to scientific theoretical development. The basis for which may range over the demonstrated practical success of the principle, to a vocational/p …
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Does Psychology benefit Philosophy?
This question got me thinking:
It is widely held that Philosophy precedes the Sciences, birthing them. and continue to inform them. It is also evident that there are times when science has informed p …
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Is Deductive Reasoning Alien to the Material World?
A quick survey of literature:
Goel V. Anatomy of deductive reasoning. Trends Cogn Sci. 2007 Oct
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2685028/
García-Madruga JA, Gutiérrez F, Carriedo N, Moren …
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What makes epistemology unscientific?
This external view would be the particular philosophy-of-sciense and chiefly Epistemology. … Thus Epistemology (broadly) cannot be part of any Science, it must always be outside to guard against the pitfalls entailed by formal logic. …
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Is Deductive Reasoning Alien to the Material World?
The phenomenon of consciousness have long been a vexation to philosophers. Explanations have over the millennia been informed by the vogue of contemporary thinking. Most recently under the influence o …
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