Combining Texts

Ideas for 'Meaning and the Moral Sciences', 'Precepts for Advancing Science and Arts' and 'Conditionals and Possibilia'

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

display all the ideas for this combination of texts


3 ideas

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 7. Testimony
Knowledge depends on believing others, which must be innate, as inferences are not strong enough [Putnam]
Empathy may not give knowledge, but it can give plausibility or right opinion [Putnam]
13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 6. Scepticism Critique
I don't recommend universal doubt; we constantly seek reasons for things which are indubitable [Leibniz]