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24150 | We can only understand through concepts, which subsume particulars in generalities [Nietzsche] |
Full Idea: We have only one form of understanding - concept, the more general case that subsumes the particular case. | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1884-85 [1884], 26[156]) | |
A reaction: This is precisely Aristotle's problem with scientific explanation - that we aim to understand each particular, but accounts and definitions have to be expressed with universals. |
8808 | Involuntary beliefs can still be evaluated [Feldman/Conee] |
Full Idea: Examples confirm that beliefs may be both involuntary and subject to epistemic evaluation. | |
From: R Feldman / E Conee (Evidentialism [1985], II) | |
A reaction: This is an extremely important point, which summarises the situation with beliefs that arise from (apparent) immediate perception. A belief cannot possibly be knowledge if it has been triggered, but no effort was made to evaluate it. |