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(1995) To know or not to know, Dordrecht, Springer.

Pre-conditions of knowledge 1

Jan Srzednicki

pp. 62-83

To attack the problem at the root of the possibility of knowledge directly we start by considering again the role of such a doctrine as the Kantian doctrine of "two sources", or Spinoza's "monism", or Quine's "holistic relativism". The question now being whether we need such a theory. After all we have no difficulty communicating and making sense. We use our knowledge in a satisfactory manner for all practical purposes. Whoa! — that lands us in Pragmatism, and Pragmatism is a basic epistemological hypothesis of the very type that we are trying to abandon.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-3542-1_4

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Srzednicki, J. (1995). Pre-conditions of knowledge 1, in To know or not to know, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 62-83.

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