Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Eubulides, David Hume and Epicurus

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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / c. Empirical foundations
2206 Reasons for belief must eventually terminate in experience, or they are without foundation [Hume]
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / f. Foundationalism critique
2235 There is no certain supreme principle, or infallible rule of inference [Hume]
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 7. Testimony
10328 We think testimony matches reality because of experience, not some a priori connection [Hume]
2230 Good testimony needs education, integrity, motive and agreement [Hume, by PG]
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 8. Social Justification
12417 Mathematicians only accept their own proofs when everyone confims them [Hume]
13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism
4549 Epicurus denied knowledge in order to retain morality or hedonism as the highest values [Nietzsche on Epicurus]
2238 Reason can never show that experiences are connected to external objects [Hume]
2242 Mitigated scepticism draws attention to the limitations of human reason, and encourages modesty [Hume]
13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 2. Types of Scepticism
2243 Mitigated scepticism sensibly confines our enquiries to the narrow capacity of human understanding [Hume]
5548 Hume became a total sceptic, because he believed that reason was a deception [Hume, by Kant]
13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 3. Illusion Scepticism
2668 Epicurus says if one of a man's senses ever lies, none of his senses should ever be believed [Epicurus, by Cicero]
6010 Illusions are not false perceptions, as we accurately perceive the pattern of atoms [Epicurus, by Modrak]
2236 Examples of illusion only show that sense experience needs correction by reason [Hume]
13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 6. Scepticism Critique
2241 The main objection to scepticism is that no good can come of it [Hume]
2240 It is a very extravagant aim of the sceptics to destroy reason and argument by means of reason and argument [Hume]
13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 1. Relativism
1487 When entering a dark room it is colourless, but colour gradually appears [Epicurus]
1482 If two people disagree over taste, who is right? [Epicurus, by Plutarch]
1483 Bath water is too hot for some, too cold for others [Epicurus, by Plutarch]