Whaddya Know? Epistemology for Dummies
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Very interesting and clear, thanks.
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cool hwip
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@FantasticBabblings I am confused. Im into ethics, in philosophy. Where does Epistemology fit into ethics. Also where does metaphysics fit into ethics? whats the difference between Epistemology and metaphysics? how do they effect moral theorys in philosophy?
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This is so insightful. Thanks!
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"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing."
Socrates
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@0zyzzyz0 Thanks for your comment. The problem with getting into the academic thinking on the subject is that it easily becomes a quagmire as you so rightly said. That type of exegesis is best written so the reader can go back and re-read and jump back and forth. Not really suited to a video.
The favorite button is now under the "Add to" button. Thanks again.
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The philosophy of materialism ultimately relies for its validity on strong empiricism: "all knowledge derives from sense perception". Trouble is that that idea does not itself derive from sense perception. Hence the epistemology on which materialism (and therefore atheism) depends is self-refuting. If there is any philosophy which is irrational it is materialism, since matter cannot account for the objective validity of reason, in other words, for 'mind'.
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thank you.
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about the last line in your video, positivism has been used chiefly as a justification for imposing the will of the people in power onto the masses, dont pretend it somehow helps individual freedom.
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and let me just add that your main problem is that youre trying to apply the epistemological underpinnings of PHYSICAL science to social science where it has absolutely no place because it(knowledge of social science) cannot be falsified.
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A lot of good stuff here. Thanks for sharing.
In the last statement, "Everyone should be free to believe their own fantasy world", isn't that a judgment, perjorative? By "fantasy world" do you mean "false view?"
Why not just say, "everyone should be free"?
How would you (or anyone) know, a priori, that a particular view was a fantasy or not?
There is another area of possibility which your Venn diagram did not cover. And that is the possibility that all views are true.
billhuston 2 years ago
@billhuston I also stated that I have my own imaginative (fantasy) world, so if I am being pejorative (not perjorative) I am also disparaging myself. This video expresses no judgment of fantasies, just an effort to separate them from evidentiary knowledge.
The diagram is merely an exemplar, not an effort to show the actual proportions of truth and falsity. I'm sure all views are true... in someone's fantasy world.
FantasticBabblings 2 years ago 3
Atheism is seen as illogical in epistemologial terms. Skepticism is alright and is needed, but extreme recalcitrance passed as skepticism is a threat to Science. Furthermore you started off with knowledge being justification. No, justification isn't knowledge.
ogirv101 2 years ago
It depends on your definition of atheism. For me, it means I have no gods; it does not mean I insist that no god exists. Atheists themselves argue and split hairs over the meaning and I have no interest in pursuing that argument.
I did NOT say knowledge is justification. I said it is the result of justification of that which is true and believed.
You either didn't listen or aren't very bright.
FantasticBabblings 2 years ago 5
To admit not to know and be stuck in awe is the same to assume a supreme being is responsible for it all.However, to reach forth in to the blinding dark of infinity and grasp onto the steps of knowledge is the most divine thing an individual can ever do. Never give up. Never surrender.
BunyPunter 2 years ago
Until you actually do know something, the only honest thing is to admit you don't. And why be stuck in awe? Awe can be quite fluid and be that which propels you to reach for further knowledge.
FantasticBabblings 2 years ago 2