Epistemology

Epistemology examines how we acquire knowledge and assess its reliability. It investigates the methods we use to understand the world, unraveling the mysteries of learning and understanding.

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Exploring the Limits of Knowledge and Science

Let’s start with a question: are there limits to what we can know and understand? From the ancient Greeks to

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Rationalism: Finding certainty through reason

1. Introduction As the cold wind blew outside, René Descartes sat huddled in his small studio, deep in thought. The

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Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Revolution

The scientific revolution, spanning the 16th to 18th centuries, witnessed groundbreaking discoveries and radical ideas that fundamentally altered humanity’s understanding

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Aristotle: Man the social thinker

What is knowledge? Like Plato, Aristotle recognised that knowledge is only knowledge if it is of something that is true.

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The Sophists: Truth is Relative

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