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I would say we know through the brain which is an integrated system of conscious and non conscious processes. Thats a scientific, post philosophical (perhaps) hypothesis.
Experiences aren't reliable? Does that include the (internal) experience of your reasoning processes?
My epistemology is synthetic between rationalism and empiricism, and can't really be reduced to either pole, although most people would probably think of it as empirical since observation does play an important role.
However, observation can also include introspection. We can learn about ourselves through introspection, and that doesn't involve the senses, strictly speaking.
Furthermore, knowledge is acquired through a long process starting with something similar to coherentism. We start off tentatively with a collection of common knowledge, educated views, intuitive reasoning, and life experience. Using these, we may use dialectical (Socratic) thinking to arrive at basic principles in which we have strong confidence, and from these principles work toward a relatively foundationalist epistemology in which we come to justify as many beliefs as we can in terms of these fundamentals.
Even so, some coherentism may be maintained as long as we approach unjustified or weakly justified views as tentative and without strong conviction.
eudaimonia,
Mark
The three choices are too limiting.
Personal knowledge, including self knowledge are another kinds of knowledge. As is experience. Jesus offers us personal knowledge of God, not abstractions about Him.
John
NZ
Did you read how I defined knowledge as?
Knowledge is not a function of assertion
If then, we have a reason to know, without asserting it: we know
The question is how did we ever get to know, if we never asserted anything?
I think the answer is that we prefer to know, when the alternative is ignorance
Yeah, and its too limiting.
John
NZ
Revelation, intuition, experience are other ways of knowing.
John
NZ
Well I'm going by the old Platonic(?) model for the definition of knowledge and the ones you described are pretty much empirical.
Not as most commonly understood.
Revelation originates beyond us. Sure, it is meaningless unless understood well, but nevertheless it cannot be contained within a platonic framework. In fact Plato himself recognised 'inspiration' as a source of sudden understanding, especially in the arts.
Intuition is not the objective, systematically formulated model of Greek thinking.
Personal experience is definitely not objective, and thus is unprovable in any scientific or logical framework. You cannot prove to me exactly what your enjoyment of a movie, or ice cream is like for you, but they are not illusions.
John
NZ
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