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Given I have no moral knowledge, can I still know what the best course of action is?

One might try out quasi-realism in this connection, say by speaking of "quasi-knowledge," then, too. QK could be introduced as "something that would be knowledge proper/in full, if its ...
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Given I have no moral knowledge, can I still know what the best course of action is?

these days most noncognitivists want to ‘save the appearances’ of cognitivism: They want to allow that belief reports such as ‘Jane believes that stealing is wrong’ can be true. There are two ...
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Can we have moral knowledge without intuition?

We don’t need to assume such a reality in order to explain all that is beyond doubt... Moral intuition and the moral knowledge it is presumed to make possible are redundant hypotheses that we can ...
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Epistemic failure and blaming others

The answer to the first part of your question is so clearly 'yes' that I wonder whether you had some meaning of 'blame' in mind other than its literal meaning of allocating responsibility for an ...
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Epistemic failure and blaming others

Very short answer. Different between man and animal/human, that man can act by will - art, and animals action base on reactions - because their nervous system works on reflexes formed from the outside,...
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Epistemic failure and blaming others

The question is less interesting than it seems, which it masks in over generality network epistemology models start with a collection of agents on a network, who choose from some set of options. One ...
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Epistemic failure and blaming others

From my experience, any question that begins Can we blame others Usually has an answer of no.
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Would a "disagreement operator" break down if iterated too much?

Digital computers have call stacks, so that for any D(s), one can invoke recursively D(s), at least theoretically, for as many calls as one has computing resources. Factorials for instance can be ...
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Is the unlearned nature of language a la Chomsky a way back into logical empiricist epistemology?

I think you are reading too much into Chomsky's view. An ability to string words into sentences seems to be innate, but the words themselves are not. If that were not the case you would have to ...
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