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Mind Map by Lauren Diffey, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Lauren Diffey
over 11 years ago
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The Problem of the Criterion
- What is the POC?
- Issue regarding the starting point of knowledge
- 2 Questions:
- 1. What do we know? What is the extent of our knowledge?
- Particularism
- Have an Answer to 1 so can have an answer to 2
- Have an Answer to 1 so can have an answer to 2
- Particularism
- 2. How do we know? What is the criterion for knowing?
- Methodism
- Have an answer to 1
- Have an answer to 1
- Methodism
- 3rd Option = Skepticism: no answers
- No prospect for agreement
- Can't have an Answer to 1, without an Answer to 2, and vice versa
- No prospect for agreement
- 1. What do we know? What is the extent of our knowledge?
- Issue regarding the starting point of knowledge
- Sextus Empiricus
- Pyrrhonist
- suspend judgment (practice epochē) and take no part in the
controversy regarding the possibility of certain knowledge.
- reserves judgement about certain
knowledge and practise epoche
- Academic skeptic says there is no such
thing as truth which is paradoxical
- Sextus knows he cannot
advance towards tranquility if
he goes down this line
- Sextus knows he cannot
advance towards tranquility if
he goes down this line
- suspend judgment (practice epochē) and take no part in the
controversy regarding the possibility of certain knowledge.
- no knowledge as to many
different possibilities
- Difference in perceptions and sensations
- Honey: Sweet if healthy, bitter if jaundiced
- Honey: Sweet if healthy, bitter if jaundiced
- Difference in perceptions and sensations
- we should suspend our judgement
- Not discuss external objects
- End result = tranquility
- You do not know you will come upon tranquility, but you may
come upon it by chance if you lead your life in this way
- You do not know you will come upon tranquility, but you may
come upon it by chance if you lead your life in this way
- End result = tranquility
- Gives us a training manual/new training in skepticism
to give us an ability to oppose the dogmatist: dialectical
ability
- Not discuss external objects
- Pyrrhonist
- Cicero
- "Any sense experience that we think represents the
world correctly, exactly resembles one that does not"
- No certainty, but probability is a way forward
- Arguments of 4 parts
- 1. There is such a thing as a false
presentation
- 2. A false presentation cannot
be percieved
- 3. Where there is no difference between some
presentation it is impossible for one to be percieved
and the other not
- 4. There is no true presentation orginating from
sensation which there is not another
presentation that is the same as it (corresponds
to it) but cannot be percieved.
- This is what Cicero is concerned with
- This is what Cicero is concerned with
- 1. There is such a thing as a false
presentation
- "Any sense experience that we think represents the
world correctly, exactly resembles one that does not"
- Chisholm
- Need to distinguish between truth
and falsehood
- Criterion of truth should be "internal, objective and immediate"
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- Need to distinguish between truth
and falsehood
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