PHIL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cogito Ergo Sum, Rotten Apples, Analytic Geometry
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The study of the nature, extent, and source of knowledge: episteme knowledge, logos rational discourse. Individually necessary for knowledge: together sufficient for knowledge, belief, true / truth ( corresponding to reality ) 3 beliefs rank in certainty: my dog"s name is karma ( 2 , my mom"s maiden name is behm ( 3 ) Skepticism the claim that we do not have knowledge: we do not seem to have adequate justification that our beliefs are true. Justification requires certainty: certainty being completely immune to error; not susceptible to doubt; indubitable; clearly and distinctly true, certainty is the standard for justification. Any individual belief can be doubted * If all beliefs can be doubted, then no beliefs are certain: hence, no beliefs are certain. Thus, we do not have genuine knowledge. * universal belief falsifiers pg 179. Skeptics are concerned with what is possible. Rene descartes ( 1596 1650 ) Father of analytical geometry and cartesian coordinates.
