Aaron Feizet Metaphysics Paper 2 Why Mereological Universalism and Nihilism Are Not Mutually Exclusive In Function 1. Introduction In the following paper‚ I ’ll attempt to argue that the Mereological Universalism championed by James Van Cleve‚ and metaphysical nihilism‚ are more or less reconcilable. What’s more‚ I’ll argue that the functional understanding of the world occupied by universalists is more or less identical to that which is necessarily employed by all nihilists (or at least all
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Descartes uses epistemology and metaphysics to frame his famous "cogito" argument. But in order to understand how that works‚ first‚ we must discuss the differences between an epistemological and a metaphysical question. Epistemology is a facet of philosophy interested in knowledge. And an epistemological question is a question concerned with something relating to knowledge‚ apprehension of knowledge‚ knowledge-world correspondence‚ or the origins of knowledge. What is knowledge? Is knowledge
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Immanuel Kant was a Prussian philosopher who was mostly known for his metaphysics. He referred to metaphysics as the studying of being or what exists. Conversely‚ epistemology was defined by Kant as the study of knowledge; knowledge dealt with limits or what can be known or unknown. Metaphysics makes claims but we need epistemology to solidify these claims. In terms of epistemology‚ Kant separates us into to categories: empiricists and rationalists. An empiricist obtains all information through sense
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intuition is denigrated by a western culture obsessed by “facts” and science to the point that it has been dismissed by society. However‚ intuition is the very tool that has brought us to this stage in evolution‚ and is a tool still just as relevant in modern times. Intuition is a sense‚ just as reliable as the more common senses. However the only difference with intuition is that we do not understand its mechanism of action. However‚ surely we are not so foolish as to dismiss a proven concept solely because
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Epistemology How do we know what we know? Is what we believe to be truth really truth? A branch of Philosophy that seeks out to answer these questions and to discover the origin of knowledge is Epistemology. Much of what we believe is based on allegations and generalizations rather than established evidence. That’s way so many people have different beliefs throughout the world. I will be discussing more of these Worldviews in a later paragraph. Right now I’d like to continue to focus on Epistemology
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Courtney D’Andrea Philosophy 1100 Professor Magrini Final Paper Epistemology Epistemology is one of the very important branches of philosophy. It is also known as the knowledge theory. The knowledge theory consists of three questions; “What is the origin of knowledge? What is the reliability of knowledge? & What is the criteria of knowledge?” Rene Descartes and John Locke really looked into epistemology and both had different theories to approach it. John Locke looked at empiricism and
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Running Head: ORGANIZATIONAL EPISTEMOLOGY 1 Organizational Epistemology St. Rachel E. Ustanny University of Phoenix ORGANIZATIONAL EPISTEMOLOGY 2 There are different perspectives about the origin of knowledge‚ which have influenced the development of concepts such as a priori and a posteriori truth‚ epistemic regress‚ and sensual perception—Descartes (as cited in Cooper‚ 1999) argued that there are certain undeniable truths‚ which are obtained from our senses; Feldman (2003)
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