Combining Philosophers
Ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, David Hume and Donald C. Williams
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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / c. Empirical foundations
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Reasons for belief must eventually terminate in experience, or they are without foundation [Hume]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / f. Foundationalism critique
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There is no certain supreme principle, or infallible rule of inference [Hume]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 7. Testimony
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We think testimony matches reality because of experience, not some a priori connection [Hume]
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Good testimony needs education, integrity, motive and agreement [Hume, by PG]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 8. Social Justification
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Mathematicians only accept their own proofs when everyone confims them [Hume]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism
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Reason can never show that experiences are connected to external objects [Hume]
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Mitigated scepticism draws attention to the limitations of human reason, and encourages modesty [Hume]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 2. Types of Scepticism
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Hume became a total sceptic, because he believed that reason was a deception [Hume, by Kant]
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Mitigated scepticism sensibly confines our enquiries to the narrow capacity of human understanding [Hume]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 3. Illusion Scepticism
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Examples of illusion only show that sense experience needs correction by reason [Hume]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 6. Scepticism Critique
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It is a very extravagant aim of the sceptics to destroy reason and argument by means of reason and argument [Hume]
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The main objection to scepticism is that no good can come of it [Hume]
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