Problems in Epistemology and Thought

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Non-theistic thought is an epistemic mess
for which theists and non-theists: Descartes, David Hume, Kant, Russell, Wittgenstein offer no solutions.

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  • CW

    Nope. But thanks for a summary of an aspect of the history of philosophy.

    Hume discounted all knowledge which was outside empirical observation, analytics and mathematics, which is self-refuting due to the fact that his statement falls outside those categories.

    He was a bright man with no certain answers resting on a self-stultifying presupposition.

  • I think what you're talking about is direct realism, to which no great philosopher, as far as I know, truly adheres to. For example: Locke is a representationalist; Berkley is a phenomenologist; etc- no wise person is a direct realist for exactly the reasons you've proposed. The whole of empiricism isn't direct realism, however. I think what you're taling about is obtaining knowledge a posteriori vs. a priori; in which case you should read about Hume's 'ideas' and 'impressions.'

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