Epistemology
Epistemology
 None of the gods love wisdom or desire to become wise, for they are wise already -- nor if someone else is wise, do they love wisdom. Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful nor sensible think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.
Plato, Symposium 203E-204A
At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.
Virginia Postrel, The Future and Its Enemies, p.88 [The Free Press, 1998]
Contributed Works
Nelsons Beweis der Unmöglichkeit der Erkenntnistheorie, Dr. Kay Herrmann, 2007 [14.9K]
Nelson's Proof of the Impossibility of the Theory of Knowledge, Dr. Kay Herrmann, 2008 [9.3K] 
Editorial Essays
Knowledge [29.9K]
Knowledge in Plato's Meno
Hume Shifts the Burden of Proof [14.1K]
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) [70.6K]
Intuition and Mysticism in Kantian Philosophy
Faith, Works, and Knowledge [18.3K]
Analytic and Synthetic: Kant and the Problem of First Principles
Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773-1843) [16.4K]
Leonard Nelson (1882-1927) [11.6K]
The Socratic Method, by Leonard Nelson [100.2K]
Note on Nelson's Axiomatic Diagrams
The Impossibility of the Theory of "Knowledge," by Leonard Nelson [51.4K]
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) [30.7K]
Sir Karl Popper (1902-1994) [7.6K]
Criticism of Karl Popper in Martin Gardner's Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries?, W.W. Norton & Company, 2003 [22.6K]
Criticism of Karl Popper in Anthony O'Hear's An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Oxford University Press, 1989 [7.9K]
The Foundations of Value, Part I, Logical Issues: Justification (quid facti), First Principles, and Socratic Method (after Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Fries, & Nelson) [57.9K]
Socratic Ignorance in Democracy, the Free Market, and Science [26.1K]
Foundationalism and Hermeneutics [26.1K]
The Arch of Aristotelian Logic [2.8K]
In Defense of Bramantip [15.6K]
Aristotelian Syllogisms [6.3K]
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions [31.1K]
Informal Fallacies [9.1K]
Forms of the Genetic Fallacy [6.6K]
The Reasoning of Sherlock Holmes
The Foundations of Value, Part II, Epistemological Issues: Justification (quid juris) and Non-Intuitive Immediate Knowledge (Kant, Fries, & Nelson)
Non-Intuitive Immediate Knowledge, Ratio, Vol. XXIX, No. 2, December 1987 [51.7K]
Grete Henry's "The Significance of Behaviour Study for the Critique of Reason," Ratio, Volume XV, No. 2, December 1973 [4.4K + 3.17MB]
Two Philosophical Mistakes in Poincaré [13.4K]
Nor need we fear that this [Sceptical] philosophy, while it endeavours to limit our enquiries to common life, should ever undermine the reasonings of common life, and carry its doubts so far as to destroy all action, as well as speculation. Nature will always maintain her rights, and prevail in the end over any abstract reasoning whatsoever. Though we should conclude, for instance, as in the foregoing section, that, in all reasonings from experience, there is a step taken by the mind which is not supported by any argument or process of the understanding; there is no danger that these reasonings, on which almost all knowledge depends, will ever be affected by such a discovery.
David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section V, Part I, p. 34 [L.A. Shelby-Bigge, editor, Oxford University Press, 1902, 1972, p. 41]
Book Reviews
Sense, Reference, and Philosophy, Jerrold J. Katz, Oxford, 2004 [25.5K]
Meaning and Naming in Michael Devitt and Kim Sterelny's Language and Reality, MIT Press, 1999 [23.2K]
Words and Rules, The Ingredients of Language, Steven Pinker, Basic Books, 1999 [13.0K]
Evidence and Inquiry, Towards Reconstruction in Epistemology, Susan Haack, Blackwell, 1993 [14.5K]
Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis, Richard J. Bernstein, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983 [25.7K]
Contributed Works
Nelsons Beweis der Unmöglichkeit der Erkenntnistheorie, Dr. Kay Herrmann, 2007 [14.9K]
Nelson's Proof of the Impossibility of the Theory of Knowledge, Dr. Kay Herrmann, 2008 [9.3K]
On Gödel's Philosophy of Mathematics, by Harold Ravitch, Ph.D. [2.2K]
Principles of Predicate Calculus, by Harold Ravitch, Ph.D. [0.5K]
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