SOCIOL 1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Coherentism, Inductive Reasoning, Descriptive Knowledge
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Justification is a kind of prescription, it tells you what you ought to do. Results of arguing with the persistent skeptic: find the foundations of knowledge, get involved in an infinite regress, get involved in circular justification. A foundationalist aims for #1, a coherentist will settle for #2 or #3. After the scientific revolution, we found everything we thought was true to be false. So philosophers became concerned with understanding how we can ever be sure we know anything at all. He does not believe that the truth should change depending on who you"re talking to. He is an absolutist, the truth is the truth. He believes all knowledge is founded on clear and distinct perception because god would never lead him to be deceived through his senses. The cartesian method: doubt everything, only accept conclusions that are simple and absolutely certain, build up all knowledge from such certainties.
