Sentence examples for epistemological foundation from inspiring English sources

The epistemological foundation of faith was radically challenged by the Scottish philosopher David Hume.

These sacred histories provide an epistemological foundation to the regional intellectual property over traditional spinifex technologies formerly utilized for architectural, material and medicinal functions.

The use of the model is illustrated; its epistemological foundation, the semiotics and phaneroscopy (phenomenology) of the American philosopher Charles S. Peirce, is described; the content of its fields explained; and benefits and shortcomings discussed.

What kind of epistemological foundation had been at the basis of this endeavour?

Since the two natures of every conventional phenomenon provide the ontological and epistemological foundation for each of the truths, the division of truth into two is entirely appropriate.

Having been reaffirmed and reinforced in myriad ways through family teaching, folktales, and proverbs for centuries, Confucianism has served as the epistemological foundation to bring morality and harmony in Vietnamese society (Kelley, 2006).

Since the thorough probings of such epistemological foundations by David Hume and Immanuel Kant, skepticism about how, and indeed even that, such knowledge is possible is very strong indeed.

Tomšič has published widely on the epistemological foundations of psychoanalysis, as well as on the relationship between science and religion and the philosophical significance of structuralism.

Small is currently using large-scale administrative data to understand isolation in cities, studying how people use their networks to meet their needs, and exploring the epistemological foundations of qualitative research.

Although the main motivation for the renewed interest in logic was a search for the epistemological foundations of mathematics, the chief protagonists of this effort notably the German mathematician Gottlob Frege and the British philosopher Bertrand Russell extended their inquiry into the domain of the natural languages, which are the original media of human reasoning.

Carnap's relaxed attitude stems from his abandonment of the search for epistemological foundations.