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8825 | It seems impossible to logically deduce physical knowledge from indubitable sense data |
Full Idea: It is agreed on all hands that the classical epistemological project, conceived as one of deductively validating physical knowledge from indubitable sensory data, cannot succeed. | |||
From: Jaegwon Kim (What is 'naturalized epistemology'? [1988], p.304) | |||
A reaction: This is the 'Enlightenment Project', which had a parallel in morality. Kim refers to the difficulty as 'The Humean Predicament'. Hume also hoped that induction might be deductive. One obvious move is to expand from 'deduction' to 'reason'. |