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Knowledge & Truth
What can we know, and how? Belief, doubt, evidence and truth.
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Can you be religious and a philosophical skeptic at the same time?
This semester I took a module on scepticism, Pyrrhonism, Descartes' demon and so on, and I found some of the arguments hard to answer. Now I'm wondering whether serious scepticism is compatible…
Started by Aoife Brennan2 replies0 views -
Does an engineer’s training help or hurt in metaphysics?
I spent thirty-five years as an electrical engineer. When I read metaphysics, I notice my habits. I want to know the system boundary, the inputs and outputs, the failure modes. Sometimes this…
Started by Arjun Iyer4 replies0 views -
Did Indian epistemologists anticipate the Gettier problem?
In 1963 Edmund Gettier's three-page paper showed that justified true belief isn't sufficient for knowledge. You can have a justified belief that's true by luck. Indian philosophers seem to have discussed cases…
Started by Meera Kulkarni2 replies0 views -
What are the pramāṇas, and how do the schools disagree about them?
I grew up hearing words like "pramāṇa" in family discussions without really knowing what they meant. I've started reading Indian philosophy properly and keep running into lists of pramāṇas that differ between…
Started by Rohan Desai3 replies0 views -
Is the liar paradox a problem about language or about truth itself?
Take the sentence: this sentence is false. If true, it's false; if false, it's true. Tarski's response (1933) was that a language can't consistently contain its own truth predicate, so we need…
Started by Tomasz Wójcik3 replies0 views -
Is “objectivity” in journalism a coherent ideal?
I was trained to be "objective": report the facts, present both sides, keep my opinions out. In practice, every choice is a judgment: what's a story, whose voice to include, which word…
Started by Sana Mir3 replies0 views