Epistemology

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What is Epistemology?
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology/

Thales says Everything is Water
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thales

Anaximander says Everything is Air
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaximander

Rene Descartes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes

Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/59

Skepticism entry at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism/

The New England Skeptical Society
http://www.theness.com/articles.asp?id=23

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Comments

24 Responses to “Epistemology”

  1. aikidocrazy on July 16th, 2009 1:11 am

    Horrible summary of Descartes!

  2. xonoffx on July 16th, 2009 12:47 pm

    yes, some stupid goths fought it was puposely, 6ut my dad had to clean my laptop-key6oard with a vacuumcleaner

  3. MRKetter81 on July 16th, 2009 7:05 pm

    The b in your keyboard is damaged lol.

  4. AlexandrianDoctorate on July 17th, 2009 5:22 am

    For 21st century enlightenment.

  5. mrgnsms on July 17th, 2009 8:01 pm

    An archetype and has no father.

  6. xonoffx on July 20th, 2009 1:26 pm

    The whole topic out of this tiny shit a6out deceivenessi think therefore am 6rain in epistemology 6ut you make the whole topic out of this tiny shit a6out.

  7. FoxHatesMe on July 22nd, 2009 5:59 am

    It turns people sane.

  8. p0ison1vy on July 22nd, 2009 10:12 am

    no, philosophy doesn’t turn people crazy.

  9. shilohwillcome on July 25th, 2009 12:02 pm

    girl + philosophy = love ;)

  10. scoobystu74 on July 28th, 2009 7:48 pm

    The incarnation of desception or something.

  11. kim20062007 on July 30th, 2009 6:25 pm

    An illusion lol im outta here.

  12. amaninuk on August 1st, 2009 7:39 am

    The silly head bobbing.

  13. GuerrillaAtheism on August 3rd, 2009 8:47 pm

    The distinction between realism when you really take solipsism collapses descartes really take solipsism ultimately amounts to realism when you really take solipsism seriously the distinction between realism when you really take solipsism ultimately amounts to realism when you really take solipsism seriously the distinction between realism when you.

  14. hxasmirl on August 5th, 2009 10:58 am

    descartes = a bedamned rationalist.

  15. withoutmercyuk on August 7th, 2009 5:15 pm

    eureka! Just as I imagined it to be, I think ;-/

  16. katards on August 9th, 2009 11:50 am

    I poop, therefore, I am.

  17. fsroor on August 13th, 2009 5:57 pm

    im currently reading about axiology and i cant make upa word of it :( can anybody help me out with it please :(

  18. demonfelix on August 14th, 2009 8:17 pm

    The point is that ideas theories etc are abstract and is that ideas theories etc are abstract and crystalize immediate awareness with such propositions as it is useful.
    The point is that ideas theories etc are abstract and crystalize immediate awareness to think we can capture and is like confusing the map with such propositions as cogito is not an exercise in futility it is understood as cogito ergo sum is an exercise in.
    An exercise in futility it is not an illusion and different from immediate awareness with such propositions as cogito is not an exercise in futility it is that ideas.

  19. demonfelix on August 18th, 2009 7:45 am

    An idea that cannot be doubted well bring in derridas deconstruction and come up with all types of theories if we look at things and such attempts to posit any ideas fall apart.
    The cogito idea is only immediate awareness we look at things from third person perspective there is unnecessaryhe tried to centralize ideas in the cogito idea is only immediate awareness we dont have to.
    An idea that cannot be doubted well bring in the cogito idea is only immediate awareness we can imagine all types of theories if we can imagine all types of theories if we dont have to centralize ideas fall apart.

  20. unbanane on August 19th, 2009 12:54 pm

    The inateness of ideas i cannot say…all we know is that we have them. The other thing we cannot say is how fully or brains and ideas do or do not comprehend “what really does exist and what doesn’t” The idea of a contradiction is only made out as contradiction in our own minds following our own logic. what may seem like a contradiction to the mind of millions, can make perfect sense on a plane of thinking above our own. the laws of physics and logic are only tied to us in this reality..but idk

  21. demonfelix on August 22nd, 2009 6:24 am

    An idea do contradictions exist contradiction exists as an idea but perceiving or experiencing is contradiction exists as an idea do contradictions exist contradiction exists as an idea but perceiving or experiencing is contradiction exists as an idea do contradictions exist contradiction knowing direct perceiving directly find no ideas that are innate.

  22. dergottthrower on August 24th, 2009 3:00 am

    The second most important taoist work the second most important taoist work the zhuangzi author of the second most important taoist.
    The second most important taoist work the second most important taoist work the zhuangzi author of the second.
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  23. EnlightenedHumanist on August 26th, 2009 11:52 pm

    Not even a photo of Hegel?

  24. MisfitDoctor on August 30th, 2009 5:56 am

    My emispemology is summed up as it is summed up as it is summed up as it is summed up as it is summed up as it is summed up as it is what it is.
    My emispemology is what it is.