and Theses 10-1-2011 Bertrand Russell On Perception and Knowledge (1927 - 59) Dustin Z. Olson McMaster University‚ olsondz@mcmaster.ca Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/opendissertations Part of the Epistemology Commons‚ Metaphysics Commons‚ and the Philosophy of Science Commons Recommended Citation Olson‚ Dustin Z.‚ "Bertrand Russell On Perception and Knowledge (1927 - 59)" (2011). Open Access Dissertations and Theses. Paper 6073. This Thesis is brought
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other than his unexamined life‚ he then realize he senses have been fooling him. In addition‚ he see what the objects real look like other than how they appear as shadows.This relates to Descartes first meditation‚ that empiricism cannot be used for knowledge considering we cannot trust our senses. In addition‚ Descartes claims that there is Evil Genius deluding our perceptions. For instance‚ the prisoners in the cave are
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ENLIGHTENMENT The Enlightenment is the period in the history of western thought and culture‚ stretching roughly from the mid-decades of the seventeenth century through the eighteenth century‚ characterized by dramatic revolutions in science‚ philosophy‚ society and politics; these revolutions swept away the medieval world-view and ushered in our modern western world. Enlightenment thought culminates historically in the political upheaval of the French Revolution‚ in which the traditional hierarchical
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In the Meditations‚ after Descartes casts ideas as modes that represent objects to the mind‚ he divides ideas into kinds. He says: Among my ideas‚ some appear to be innate‚ some to be adventitious‚ and others to have been invented by me. My understanding of what a thing is‚ what truth is‚ and what thought is‚ seems to derive simply from my own nature. But my hearing a noise‚ as I do now‚ or seeing the sun‚ or feeling the fire‚ comes from things which are located outside me‚ or so I have hitherto
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Love and the three epistemologies: What is epistemology? Using my own “common sense”‚ I would say it’s the study of how we know. It is the ways of knowing. We use it to understand our reality. To get an even better understanding‚ we can reference the definition from Dictionary.com‚ which states: “EPISTEMOLOGY: A branch of philosophy that investigates the origin‚ nature‚ methods‚ and limits of human knowledge.” The World English Dictionary words it like so: “The theory of knowledge‚ the
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The New Science * Beginning to see the appearance of the individual of the self. New methods were revealing a completely secular universe to this new man and showing him how he could satisfy his new desires. * Science and scientific method * Empirical and deductive * Emphasis on empirical or deductive methods lead to radically different metaphysical and epistemological (what we can know/how we know that we know) theories and to different conceptions of the implications of scientific
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Questions : a. Describe the characteristics of philosophical reasoning! b. How is the use of reasoning into the framework of my thesis research plan? Answer : a. Characteristics of Philosophical Reasoning Before directly answering the questions above‚ I ’ll describe a little understanding of philosophical reasoning itself. According JujunSuriasumantri‚ Reasoning is a thinking process in drawing a conclusion in the form of knowledge. So reasoning is the thinking process started from empirical
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Methods and Interpretation Guba EG‚ Lincoln YS (1994) Competing paradigms in qualitative research Hesse M (1980) Revolutions and Reconstructions in the Philosophy of Science Horsfall JM (1995) Madness in our methods: nursing research‚ scientific epistemology. Johnson RB‚ Onwuegbuzie AJ (2004) Mixed methods research: a research paradigm whose Lincoln YS‚ Guba EG (1985) Naturalistic Inquiry © RCN Publishing / NURSE RESEARCHER Mertens DM (2003) Mixed methods Mill JE‚ Allen MN‚ Morrow RA (2001) Critical
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(Popkin & Stroll‚ Philosophy Made Simple‚ 1993). The doubt or the denial of the possibility of knowledge is known as skepticism. Knowledge requires certainty; this implies that before we can claim to know anything we must be certain (Omoregbe‚ J.‚ Epistemology‚ 2007). Certainty therefore becomes a priority to lay claim to any knowledge. Augustine’s first skepticism was refuted by the principle of contradiction‚ which states that “a proposition and its contradiction cannot both be true; therefore
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the Enlightenment concepts contributed to the revolution‚ I would propose that the philosophy of rationalism was foundational to the French Revolution because of its reliance on reason‚ and its opposition to superstition. Rationalism in its epistemology is defined by the Online Oxford Dictionary as: “A belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response.” The Online Encyclopedia Britannica adds: “Holding that
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