Proof of the External World.
Descartes' attempt to ground the possibility of human knowledge in the existence of God was judged to be a complete failure by his contemporaries. This remains the universal opinion of philosophers to this day, despite thefact that three and a half centuries of secular epistemology ' which...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Cambridge :
James Clarke & Co,
2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Descartes' attempt to ground the possibility of human knowledge in the existence of God was judged to be a complete failure by his contemporaries. This remains the universal opinion of philosophers to this day, despite thefact that three and a half centuries of secular epistemology ' which attempts to ground the possibility of knowledge either in the unaided human intellect or in natural processes ' has failed to do any better. Further, the leading twentieth century attempts at theistic epistemology reject both the conception of knowledge and the standards of epistemic evaluation that Descarte. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (244 pages) |
ISBN: | 0227903382 9780227903384 |