 Members tagged with epistemology
Threads tagged with epistemology
| Three possibilities of knowledge |
| I feel like another discussion on epistemology is in order! :) Us humans have an impulse to seek knowledge at ever "higher" levels, defined by ever more general categories of ... |
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| That old Chinese encyclopedia... |
| Jorge Luis Borges originally wrote this bit, claiming that "a certain Chinese encyclopedia tells us that animals are divided into:a) belonging to the Emperor, b) embalmed, c) tame, d) sucking ... |
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| Mary, super-scientist extraordinaire |
| We don't have any threads on qualia, so I was prompted to start one by Pyrogenesis' comments in the other thread (http://www.heathen-hub.com/showthread.php?t=294) about how inane this thought experiment is. :) ... |
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| Knowledge as justified true belief |
| I've noticed that a common epistemological position among atheists (and skeptical folks in general) is that knowledge is "justified true belief." Putting aside the question of whether that characterization is ... |
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