It's not that the skepticism regarding the principle of non-contradiction (PNC) is excluded from the discussion, I don't think. I'm not saying we shou...
Could there perhaps be confusion between psychological and epistemological certainty? Psychological certainty is how confidently I believe something. ...
Yes, I agree that reflection should question assumptions. But since, as I also argue, some beliefs are foundational, reflection should also reveal tha...
I like the node/bridge analogy, but I think I can expand upon it to defend my point. In order for a structure to function, it needs to rest on solid g...
That's true, Descartes idea was similar. After reflecting on his beliefs, he claimed to discover that cogito ergo sum was the only one he couldn't dou...
By a Humean, do you mean a memory skeptic? I didn't know Hume was a memory skeptic, but I suppose it makes sense that he would be. Here's an attempted...
I suppose I can't argue with your private experiences. But I doubt your experience is that much different than mine. We are both humans, after all. Ou...
In his metaphysics, Aristotle includes a chapter showing how, if you deny the principle of non-contradiction, you are lead into absurdities. His argum...
Maybe I agree with you in the sense that, in order to believe that natural human reason can lead us to truth, we need to take a kind of leap of faith....
That depends on what you mean by certainty. If by certainty you mean the impossibility of self-doubt, then I agree that that is impossible for a human...
It seems to me that knowledge of probability presupposes knowledge of certainty. For instance, if I have probabilistic knowledge that I probably won't...
Yes, in the case or bodily substances, essence, nature and quiddity all refer to matter/form composition. But Aquinas also believes in immaterial subs...
It seems like you are both saying that we can't know anything for sure and that we can't not believe in knowledge. So we can't know anything, but we m...
By redundancy theory, do you mean the idea that prefacing a statement with the phrase "it is true that" doesn't add any intelligible content to the st...
I think Aquinas holds that we can't know the essence of a substances directly, but we can only know it by means of its accidents. So, for instances, b...
Let me try to restate your argument. Show that no proposition is universally true: 1. For all propositions P, if P is universally true, it is necessar...
I think I agree if you mean that no philosophical system can ever be truly universal, in the sense that it comprehends the fundamental structures of r...
Bodily things, according to Aquinas (he gets this from Aristotle) are composites of matter and form. These composites are substances. The form gives t...
Perhaps I'm misinterpreting you, but it sounds like you are saying that there are no universal truths. Each of us, being born at a particular time in ...
I suppose it makes sense that constant-conjunction is only a hypothesis, although I haven't read Hume recently enough to judge whether or not he phras...
In the original post and in my response to you, I differentiated Hume's causal skepticism (some in the thread have argued that Russel and I are wrong ...
If that's all Hume were trying to do, then I would happily get behind him. But I'll leave the discussion of Hume's belief system to others. Unfortunat...
That makes sense. If the concept of causality is necessary to intelligibly structure experience, then all experience must presuppose it in some way. A...
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