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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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Definition of Kant's synthetic a priori
Kant’s transcendental epistemology is valuable for its synthesizing effect. Hume rejected a priori metaphysical knowledge; Leibniz rejected synthetic metaphysical knowledge. …
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Has knowledge's validity increased?
Big question, opinion-piece answer:
The view that our knowledge has become more accurate (meaning, the human understanding of the world has been approaching to truth or reality) is wishful thinking o …
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Is imagination more important than knowledge?
An important question in philosophy of science is how scientific knowledge grows. Philosophers until Thomas Kuhn were convinced that there must be some logic in scientific discovery as well as scienti …
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What is knowledge for Quine? What is the criterion for determining what knowledge is and isn't?
Quine is famous for suggesting that we should 'naturalize' epistemology. … Why did Quine have the urge to reduce epistemology into a branch of science? Because he believed that the traditional epistemology (TE) is a lost cause. …
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The Opposite Point of Positivist Epistemology
Evolutionary (or naturalized) epistemology is espoused by Quine, who argued that problems of knowledge can be answered better by natural sciences. … So evolutionary epistemology is not an appropriate answer to the given question. …
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Choosing to believe unfalsifiable hypotheses because of their consequences
Pushing to the Brain In a Vat case about the external world is at the level of philosophy.
Statisticians will try to measure the degree of uncertainty or faith: e.g., goodness of fit, Glymour's boots …
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