Concepts in epistemology

The No Defeaters Theory of epistemology seeks to solve the Gettier Problem in epistemic justification and be a solid means of epistemically justifying an individual's beliefs. The Gettier Problem is a commonly discussed challenge to the traditional way of defining knowledge. The traditional way is when a person has a belief that turns out to be accurate and true, while he is also justified for having that belief. For example, Peter claims that the Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA Finals. Peter is…

The strength and amount of the Innate Concept differs with the ideas claiming to be innate. The further an idea seems distant from experience through mental processing the more we can rely on that experience. Although, experiencing pain our perception of the former thoughts is a more assuring in being innate. The Innate Concept and Knowledge are vital to rationalism. However, experience does not deliver the knowledge we get from reason. Reason is considered to be more valuable than experiences…

Edin Palmar PHI2010 F 10:00-10:50am Dr. Schuh Ch.1 Introduction 1. Explain some of the benefits a student may gain by studying philosophy. Studying philosophy helps one tackle the question of the “self” in the sense that it makes one really think of why they believe in something or why one does the things they do. This in turn will help us to “think, reason, and evaluate” critically in order to attain wisdom and intelligence, something not easily obtained due to the constant bombardment of the…

observe the etymology of the word philosophy, it very literally means “lover of knowledge”. But what a broad term; what does philosophy englobe? It has many branches which specify on various topics, such as aesthetics, ethics, logic, metaphysics, epistemology and politics. All of these cover the broad subject that knowledge is, of what our world is composed of. One of the most famous names amongst the many philosophers who have contributed to the furthering of knowledge throughout history is…

Similarly, with an axiom of certainty that he exists, Descartes uses faculties power; considering, as a thinking thing, he can doubt, affirm, deny, and refuse. Likewise, Descartes uses the faculties of the mind to find truths. He begins with intellect (concepts), imagination (geometric objects), and sensation. Using wax as an example, Descartes removes imagination because it is unable to tell him whether the wax is still wax because the shape changes, and he removes sensation because his senses…

enjoy reading the sources I had picked out, nor did I have an easy time even knowing where to start, so I decided to change it up a little bit. I then decided to narrow it down to his views on memory and his virtue epistemology, but when it came time to write on his virtue epistemology I couldn’t find what I wanted because most of the time scholars would not write enough on it for me, so I went back to the drawing board. I wanted to keep Aristotle in it because his ideologies are so influential,…

Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and Aquinas each have their different views about the way our world was constructed and what is truly real, however, some of the concepts and ideas are reflected throughout one another's belief system. Plato believed in a theory he called Platonic Dualism which is the idea of resistance between spirit and matter, spirit being the higher, purer principle and matter being the lower and imperfect form of being, capable of change and corruption. He believed our world is…

subject to the normal working of the laws of nature. On the other side, it means the major properties and origin of individual things. Nature has been discussed in the history of Western Civilization, in the philosophical fields of metaphysics and epistemology, also in theology…

which includes and genuinely offers being to the world lies past physical experience, which is exhibited by isolating it from the unmistakable, discernment based experience, with his 'line'. Obviously, this is the place it is hard to keep his epistemology and power straight. Epistemologically speaking, Plato accepts to know something is, in actuality, a memory of inherent learning somebody as of now has. The Divided Line demonstrates that to achieve the following intellectual condition of the…

It is clear to state that man can be blinded by the materialist view of this puzzling world because of the value and beauty that man puts upon each and every object that is being place on this earth. But, what’s truly sad about man is that, when one man tries to help another man to expand on the intellect of the puzzling world that he lives in, instead of creating an environment of intellectual safety, man resides into the side of ignorance and rejects the idea of intellectual expansion. The…