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Consistency and special pleading in absolute truth claims
If one believed one knew nothing, it would be hard for one to think...
... lacking knowledge of concepts and abstractions and logic and reasoning...
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Consistency and special pleading in absolute truth claims
The resolution is to use a sentence S such as, "Nothing can be known with perfect certainty."
Then we interpret the word "belief" to mean having a credence in a proposition above ...
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What does Moore need the second hand for?
Moore’s argument:
Here is a hand.
Here is another hand.
Therefore, there now exists two hands.
3 proves that 'there are things outside of us'. This implies an external world exists.
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Can beliefs equal Knowledge?
This is a question about how we define beliefs, knowledge, and absolute truth. Here are the usual definitions in philosophy:
A belief is any proposition you think is true. You may have a good, ...
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