Concept tag
#scepticism
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Nozick gave up closure to beat the sceptic. Isn’t that too high a price?
I've been reading al-Ghazālī's Deliverance from Error during my gap year, especially the part where he doubts the senses and then even reason, because in dreams everything seems real until you wake. It got me into modern scepticism, and now I'm stuck…
Started by Fajar Nugroho0 replies104 views -
Sextus, Nāgārjuna and Wang Chong within about a century: one sceptical moment, or three projects?
Between treks I read about the history of philosophy, and I came across a striking claim: that in roughly a century or so, around the second century CE, three traditions with no documented contact each produced a great critic of confident assertion.…
Started by Nima Tsering Gurung5 replies140 views -
Vitaṇḍā is not always illegitimate: a critic with no thesis can still be doing philosophy
I guide trekkers on the Annapurna circuit and read in tea houses in the evenings. A monk in Manang gave me a commentary on Nāgārjuna, and I've been chewing on one problem since. The Nyāya tradition calls vitaṇḍā illegitimate: one party only…
Started by Nima Tsering Gurung7 replies205 views