Does anyone know anything about epistomology?
I know I can look it up, but I'd much rather discuss it with someone than read from a textbook.
I know I can look it up, but I'd much rather discuss it with someone than read from a textbook.
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Epistomology
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Chuck_Darwin
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What do you want to know?
Epistomology attempts to answer the question: How do you know what you know is true?
Epistomology attempts to answer the question: How do you know what you know is true?
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Epistomology attempts to answer the question: How do you know what you know is true?
So it's basically the search for truth?
Attempts to answer the question. Well, how do you start answering that question?
I'm going to attempt to answer that question, tell me if I have it right.
How do you know what you know is true? Reason. Reason tells me that what I know is true, because reason is the foundation of knowledge.
So it's basically the search for truth?
Attempts to answer the question. Well, how do you start answering that question?
I'm going to attempt to answer that question, tell me if I have it right.
How do you know what you know is true? Reason. Reason tells me that what I know is true, because reason is the foundation of knowledge.
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Pick up a good book on the history of philosophy and read up on Rene Descares. In his book Meditations Descartes tells of the day he spent alone by a stove in Germany during the tiem he was a soldier, and how, little by little he began processing the question of how do I know what I know?
In summary Descares said:
Because our senses deceive us, I must suppose that nothing is as it appears. How do I know Im sitting here by the stove? I cannot be certain, I could be dreaming or hallucinating, a wicked demon might be tricking me. The only thing I cannot doubt is that I think something, even if its thinking Im dreaming or being tricked, or thinking I dont have a body.
Ultimately Descares came up with cogito ergo sum or I think, therefore I am.
After this skip ahead to David Hume. Hume basically destroying all of Descares work by casting doubt upon cause and effect relationships.
Or more precisely, I doubt, therefore I think.
In summary Descares said:
Because our senses deceive us, I must suppose that nothing is as it appears. How do I know Im sitting here by the stove? I cannot be certain, I could be dreaming or hallucinating, a wicked demon might be tricking me. The only thing I cannot doubt is that I think something, even if its thinking Im dreaming or being tricked, or thinking I dont have a body.
Ultimately Descares came up with cogito ergo sum or I think, therefore I am.
After this skip ahead to David Hume. Hume basically destroying all of Descares work by casting doubt upon cause and effect relationships.
Or more precisely, I doubt, therefore I think.
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