Combining Texts

Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'works' and 'Letters to Antoine Arnauld'

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 / 4. Foundationalism / a. Foundationalism

5033	Nothing should be taken as certain without foundations [Leibniz]
	Full Idea: Nothing should be taken as certain without foundations.
	From: Gottfried Leibniz (Letters to Antoine Arnauld [1686], 1687.04.30)
	A reaction: This might leave open the option, if you were a modern 'Fallibilist', that something might lack foundations, and so not be certain, and yet still qualify as 'knowledge'. That is my view. Knowledge resides somewhere between opinion and certainty.

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]
	Full Idea: I regard you all as relatives - by nature, not by convention. By nature like is akin to like, but convention is a tyrant over humankind and often constrains people to act contrary to nature.
	From: Hippias (fragments/reports [c.430 BCE]), quoted by Plato - Protagoras 337c8