Justification vs. clarification
clarification answers the question /”how /the thing develops”. Justification answers the question /”why /it is so” Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, The Phenomenological Realism of the Possible Worlds, 114
Tag Archives: justification
Scientific acts are sustained by consciousness of justification
Scientific acts are sustained by /consciousness of justification /and are constantly organized and modified from the perspective of “reason”, correctness, justifying motivation. /Reason requires /that such and such acts 15 […]
justification (Socrates vs. Aristotle)
#Socrates did not carry out a “regress of reasons,” after the manner of #Aristotle, looking for premises. Instead, he examined the logical /consequences/ of the beliefs that he elicited from […]
Problem of Induction
Aristotle had hoped that first principles could be discovered through *induction*. An inductive inference is the generalization that results from counting individual objects or events. The */Problem of Induction/* is […]
rationality
If you wish to justify your beliefs, you give /reasons/ for them. You say that you believe proposition Z because of reason Y. Willingness to give reasons all by itself […]
Ann Cudd – Contractarianism
Cudd, Ann, “Contractarianism”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2012 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2012/entries/contractarianism/>. ————————————— For contractualism see: http://eidetisch.tumblr.com/post/45929110424/contractualism-plato-stanford-edu —————————————- [CONTRACTARIANISM] “Contractarianism” names both a political […]
The a priori/a posteriori distinction is epistemological: it concerns how, or on what basis, a proposition might be known or justifiably believed. Πηγή: http://www.iep.utm.edu/apriori/#H2
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