Explicit reasoning or proof... «Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction»
kitties_with_days30 августа 2022Explicit reasoning or proof has a clear role to play when we are supporting general philosophical claims: we can engage in extended reasoning about exactly what it means for something to be an ‘external object’. By contrast, an ordinary claim like ‘Here is a hand’ is so basic that it is hard to find simpler and better-known claims we could use to support it. (There is a parallel with mathematics here, where some basic claims are taken as axioms, not themselves in need of proof.)
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