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Skeptical Fideism in Cicero’s De Natura Deorum [PDF]
, 2019 The work of Richard H. Popkin both introduced the concept of skeptical fideism and served to impressively document its importance in the philosophies of a diverse range of thinkers, including Montaigne, Pascal, Huet, and Bayle.
Ribeiro, Brian
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The argument from undecidable dissension
Principia: An International Journal of EpistemologyThe five modes of suspension of judgment outlined by Sextus Empiricus (HP XV 164-188) coordinate a complex argumentative strategy to prompt the general suspension of judgment.
Hugo Enrique Sánchez López
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, 2017 Contrastivism about knowledge is the view that one does not just know some proposition. It is more adequate to say that one knows something rather than something else: I know that I am looking at a tree rather than a bush but I do not know that I am ...
Baumann, Peter
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Pyrrhonian Skepticism in Diogenes Laertius
, 2015 Pyrrhonische Skepsis bei Diogenes Laertius.
Richard Bett +7 more
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The Dark and Middle Ages [PDF]
, 2018 For the most part only Plato\u27s teachings supported by a limited version of Aristotelian cosmology supportive of Platonism survived the decline of ancient Greek philosophy during the Roman Empire. Christianity later prevailed, and toward the end of the
Jayne, Edward
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Examinei Live: An Epistemological Exchange Between Philosophy and Cultural Psychology on Reflection [PDF]
, 2019 Since the famous passage in which Socrates (Plato 38a5-6) says that the unexamined, and therefore non-reflected, life is not worth living, “reflection” has been a diffuse and iterant term in ethics, moral philosophy, epistemology, political philosophy ...
Silva Filho, Waldomiro
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Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 1997 This article aims at showing that contemporary attempts to rehabilitate Pyrrhonian scepticism do not hold water. I claim that a sceptic of this trend gets stuck in two major dilemmas. The first regards her object of investigation.
Marco A. Frangiotti
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The bifurcated conception of perceptual knowledge: a new solution to the basis problem for epistemological disjunctivism [PDF]
, 2019 Epistemological disjunctivism says that one can know that p on the rational basis of one’s seeing that p. The basis problem for disjunctivism says that that can’t be since seeing that p entails knowing that p on account of simply being the way in which ...
Shaw, Kegan J.
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Descartes’s Pyrrhonian Virtue Epistemology
, 2015 This chapter discusses how Descartes uses his principle of clarity and distinctness to raise his first-order judgments to the scientia level. Error is what one must avoid, not just falsity; so he seeks not just truth but also aptness
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