Category: Knowledge
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October 28, 2022
Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post.
Fortunately for us, David Hume wrote a lot of his thoughts down in his book A Treatise on Human Nature. Yet it might not have been so. At the end of Book I, Hume admits, in lengthy detail, that he doubts himself, his work and his ideas. I find this reassuring for the rest of us who question our ideas as well.
October 7, 2022
Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post.
“a man’s vision is the great fact about him” – William James
At the outset of The Pluralistic Universe, William James asks that all citizens learn to think for themselves. Furthermore, he feels that students should think for themselves rather than expect, await and rely upon classroom lectures for insight. He encourages interest in patterns of thought,
September 23, 2022
Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post.
As recently discussed on this blog, I have begun a journey through the great idea of Knowledge. I want to better understand our sources of knowledge, how we think we know what we think we know. Really, I am trying to assess at what point a thought, idea or belief becomes something akin to knowledge. So much of my studies stem from what we now term the “Western world.” In How the World Thinks,