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Ideas for Lucretius, Porphyry and Willard Quine
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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / c. Empirical foundations
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The only possible standard for settling doubts is the foundation of the senses [Lucretius]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 9. Naturalised Epistemology
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You can't reduce epistemology to psychology, because that presupposes epistemology [Maund on Quine]
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We should abandon a search for justification or foundations, and focus on how knowledge is acquired [Quine, by Davidson]
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If we abandon justification and normativity in epistemology, we must also abandon knowledge [Kim on Quine]
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Without normativity, naturalized epistemology isn't even about beliefs [Kim on Quine]
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Epistemology is a part of psychology, studying how our theories relate to our evidence [Quine]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 3. Illusion Scepticism
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Most supposed delusions of the senses are really misinterpretations by the mind [Lucretius]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 4. Cultural relativism
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To proclaim cultural relativism is to thereby rise above it [Quine, by Newton-Smith]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 5. Language Relativism
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Two things are relative - the background theory, and translating the object theory into the background theory [Quine]
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