analytic philosophy

Ludwig Wittgenstein’s On Certainty, and how G.E. Moore Fails to Respond to the Skeptics

Beginning with Descartes, traditional forms of epistemology have attempted to create a foundation of knowledge that can not be doubted. The skeptical tradition, employing and developing Cartesian doubt among other variations of it, has sought to undermine the possibility certainty about the external world and, more generally, all knowledge. The philosopher G.E. Moore attempted to […]

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W.V.O Quine: On What There Is (Summary & Critique)

On What There Is: Quine’s Theory of Ontology and Position on Universals A universal describes a member of a class of mind-independent entities in reality that is not a particular thing, but an attribute, relation, etc. The realist position on universals posits that individuals share attributes with other individuals and that this commonality is manifested

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