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All the ideas for 'On Being (frags)', 'Sententia on 'De Caelo'' and 'What is 'naturalized epistemology'?'

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly

22101	Philosophy aims to know the truth about the way things are [Aquinas]
	Full Idea: The study of philosophy has as its purpose to know not what people have thought, but rather the truth about the way things are.
	From: Thomas Aquinas (Sententia on 'De Caelo' [1268], I.22.228), quoted by Kretzmann/Stump - Aquinas, Thomas 05
	A reaction: I agree with this deeply unfashionable opinion. Of course, modern investigations must be more sensitive to biases built into language, culture and conceptual schemes. But I am one of those sad old folks who still think truths can be stated.

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / f. Foundationalism critique

8825	It seems impossible to logically deduce physical knowledge from indubitable sense data [Kim]
	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'.