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If someone asks me, "Did you throw that beer can there?", I can say, "No, not to my knowledge." This means that I acknowledge the fallibility of my own knowledge. According to my ...
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The knowability paradox is a simple logical problem whereby if all truths can be known, then all truths are known. So, it seems as if not all truths are knowable, or that is the common refrain. Now, ...
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My title is a bit odd in order to differentiate it from this question: Is Hegel's system really without presuppositions? The question, and the answer by Philip Klöcking, deal only with the charge ...
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There are two possibilities regarding forgetting things and then perceiving them again, which I will describe as Theory A and Theory B. Theory A says that if I forget something and then perceive it ...
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Consider the final time you will ever recollect a certain memory. Can we thus consider this memory to be forgotten from that point forward? There is an obvious difference between a memory that isn't ...
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I have been doing some self reflection, and questions keep arising. In this post I want to ask "are my memories part of the thing that is me, or are they part of my mind, and thus separate from ...
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Read a article which stated that at birth Consciousness and Memory are separated from each other so that facility of memory can be used when required, use of memory by Consciousness was given the name ...
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x = An event, an image (sensu latissimo) of which you have in yer mind. x is memory only if x is a past event x is a past event only if x is a memory The criterion for x being a memory (and not, ...
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Descartes, IIRC, somewhere says something about the vagaries of memory influencing our justification for believing in our memory, and thence for believing in proofs involving many steps that we have ...
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Imagine you start your framework with some facts. Now, you then derive some statement. Can you hold the entire chain of inference in your mind simultaneously? If not, then that statement is dependent ...
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Descartes presented the Memory response against the cartesian circle. Descartes assumed the reliability of intuition all along. The doubt he laid to rest by proving God's existence is one of memory: ...
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I’m trying to understand Aristotle’s views on blindness, as given in these passages: "just as the blind remember better, being released from having their faculty of memory engaged with objects ...
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Imagine a person who can't remember anything. Idon't think this is possible in reality but let's assume he misses the part of remembring that can be temporally related to other experiences. He will ...
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At first glance it seems that "knowledge" has many more categories than "memory". However once one starts sorting, it quickly becomes apparent that certain kinds of memory will accommodate several ...
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How can I know of something that happened billions of years ago if I cannot even recall what happened just a day before I was born? Just wondering.
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