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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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Should ever one ought to believe a proposition that he *knows* to be false?

Ayer and "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge" by Edmund Gettier as a general introduction to 20th century epistemology and then move on to works by Wilfrid Sellars Laurence Bonjour, Earl Conee, Richard …
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Explain Hilary Putnam's argument against Cartesian skepticism

Putnam holds that the meaning of terms for physical objects such as "rock," "lamp," "tiger," and yes, "brain," or "vat," just is the object to which they refer. Furthermore, the connection between the …
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