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Moral Applicability of Agrippa's Trilemma [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 According to Agrippa's trilemma, an attempt to justify something leads to either infinite regress, circularity, or dogmatism. This essay examines whether and to what extent the trilemma applies to ethics. There are various responses to the trilemma, such as foundationalism, coherentism, contextualism, infinitism, and German idealism.
Iwasa, Noriaki
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Agrippa's trilemma: scepticism and contemporary epistemology [PDF]
, 2020 Take any belief of yours – even one about which you feel supremely confident. The Sceptic will ask: why do you think it is true? You might take yourself to have a very good reason to believe what you do. But the sceptic will also want to know why you think that this second thing is true as well.
Burns, Aaran Steven
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Rule‐Following and Objective Spirit
Philosophical Investigations, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 76-98, January 2023., 2023 Abstract This paper deals with Wittgenstein’s rule‐following paradox, focussing on the infinite rule‐regress as featured in Kripke’s Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language. I argue that one of the most salient and popular proposed solutions (championed by John McDowell), which argues that rule‐following is grounded in “custom,” “practice” or “form ...
Thomas J. Spiegel
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Basic knowledge and the normativity of knowledge: The awareness‐first solution
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 104, Issue 3, Page 564-586, May 2022., 2022 Abstract Many have found it plausible that knowledge is a constitutively normative state, i.e. a state that is grounded in the possession of reasons. Many have also found it plausible that certain cases of proprioceptive knowledge, memorial knowledge, and self‐evident knowledge are cases of knowledge that are not grounded in the possession of reasons ...
Paul Silva Jr.
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The systematic use of the five modes for the suspension of judgement [PDF]
, 2019 The five modes are a list of tools used by ancient sceptics to guide dogmatic people towards suspending their judgement. Attributed to Agrippa (of uncertain date) and used extensively by Sextus Empiricus (2nd or 3rd century CE), these modes are still ...
Vázquez, Daniel
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, 2021 One notable line of argument for epistemic relativism appeals to considerations to do with non-neutrality: in certain dialectical contexts—take for instance the famous dispute between Galileo and Cardinal Bellarmine concerning geocentrism—it seems as ...
Carter, J. Adam
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The Nature of Reasoning in Theology, Philosophy, and Mathematicsw [PDF]
, 2022 This article supports the epistemological claim that sound human reasoning about ultimate knowledge is either foundational or circularly justified. In particular, questions which naturally arise in theology, philosophy, and related disciplines, to the ...
Mangum, Chad R.
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Ideas y Valores, 2005 Agrippa’s Problem: The purpose of this paper is to present the triple problem (trilemma) of Agrippa that questions the possibility of reaching an epistemological justification of empirical knowledge.
Mauricio Zuluaga
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Agrippan Pyrrhonism and the Challenge of Disagreement [PDF]
, 2015 This paper argues for the following three claims. First, the Agrippan mode from disagreement does not play a secondary role in inducing suspension of judgment.
Machuca, Diego E.
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Beliefs, Epistemic Regress and Doxastic Justification [PDF]
, 2023 By justification we understand what makes a belief epistemologically viable: generally this is considered knowledge that is true. The problem is defining this with a higher degree of precision because this is where different conflicting conceptions ...
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