The Fundamental Argument without any garbage.
Rik Peels's (2017) Fundamental Argument is an important argument against epistemic scientism. The crucial premise of the Fundamental Argument is that if nonscientific sources of belief did not provide us with knowledge, neither could the sciences. But, the sciences do provide us with knowledge. Thus...
| Publicado en: | Metaphilosophy Vol. 55; no. 4; pp. 535 - 547 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Oct2024
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