Sentence examples for foundations of our knowledge from inspiring English sources
Cambridge, 303 pp., £45, March, 0 521 82168 1 In November 1619 René Descartes retired into a 'stove' in order to reflect on the foundations of our knowledge of ourselves and the world.
They have attempted to undermine the foundations of our knowledge and beliefs – our epistemology – by labelling as "fake" anything that challenges their aims and arguments, even rejecting science itself.
Duke is particularly fortunate in faculty and resources that allow direct contact with the textual and material foundations of our knowledge of antiquity.
A Vast Machine is a beautifully written, analytically insightful, and hugely well-informed account of the development and influence of the models and data that are the foundation of our knowledge that the climate is changing and that human beings are making it change.
Du Châtelet writes that "a hypothesis… [must] not be in contradiction with the principle of sufficient reason, nor with any principles that are the foundation of our knowledge" (IP §61).
Thus, for example, conservatism about beliefs that go into the foundation of our knowledge structure (including beliefs about basic mathematical or moral truths) might very naturally be combined with a kind of Evidentialism about beliefs that are not in the foundation (for more on foundationalism in epistemology, see foundationalist theories of epistemic justification).
While experimental measurements are the foundation of our knowledge of biological systems, estimates serve as predictions that are useful in testing where we might be holding misconceptions about cells or about methods that measure their properties.
If logical analysis could illuminate the foundations of mathematics by showing how it could all be derived from logic by substitution of synonyms, perhaps it could also illuminate the foundations of the rest of our knowledge by showing how its claims could similarly be derived from logic and experience.
