PHI-10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Descriptive Knowledge, Beatific Vision, Empirical Evidence
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You should suspend judgment about every proposition, you neither believe it or disbelieve it then you achieve tranquility, that is the best state to be in: academic skepticism. Stoics were an imperialist groups, can have certain knowledge that come from the senses if you are in a cognitive state. Knowledge is the ideal of cognition- certain unshakable cognition of the truth. The sense are unreliable and cannot give us real knowledge (cant get genuine knowledge from the senses) Sense give us mere opinion, mere true belief ( truth-like impressions, at best- lesser thing than knowledge) Knowledge had to stay fixed- had to have a true belief that had to stay put/couldn"t be shaken. No beliefs can be held with absolute certainty. The wise person does not hold mere opinions. But if the wise person assents hold any beliefs, then they would hold a mere opinion. No knowledge because no certainty, the wise person does not believe anything.
