"Prove that epistemology is the only correct way of thinking".
Tommy Shiflett 2021-02-12
Somebody asked me to "prove that epistemology is the only correct way of thinking".
What is my best way to respond to this?
What is my best way to respond to this?
Comments (6)
The first questions epistemology asks are: What can we know? and How can we know it? Those questions are, in my view, fundamental to any and every other philosophical argument. Knowing what is and is not available to knowledge, and being able to justify knowledge claims - is the essence of philosophy and the origin of wisdom.
I would object that epistemology itself is not a way of thinking that is either totally correct or incorrect, since there are many ways one can do epistemology. Epistemology refers to any number of ways in which one can think about knowledge.
Keep asking them this until something intelligible comes out of their face front.
Agreed. There is ambiguity in the question that could lead someone to misunderstand it.
“I wouldn’t know how.”