Combining Texts

Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Identity in Substances and True Propositions' and 'The View from Nowhere'

unexpand these ideas     |    start again     |     choose another area for these texts

display all the ideas for this combination of texts

---

2 ideas

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 2. Pragmatic justification

3247	Epistemology is centrally about what we should believe, not the definition of knowledge [Nagel]
	Full Idea: The central problem of epistemology is what to believe and how to justify one's beliefs, not the impersonal problem of whether my beliefs can be said to be knowledge.
	From: Thomas Nagel (The View from Nowhere [1986], V.1)
	A reaction: Wrong. The question of whether what one has is 'knowledge' is not impersonal at all - it is having the social status of a knower or expert.

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 6. Scepticism Critique

3252	Scepticism is based on ideas which scepticism makes impossible [Nagel]
	Full Idea: The sceptic reaches scepticism through thoughts that scepticism makes unthinkable.
	From: Thomas Nagel (The View from Nowhere [1986], V.6)