#Haack

SpringGnollspringgnoll
2025-01-07
2023-12-29

@janhoglund Anything that requires a reasoning subject (e.g., synthetic reasoning, any target oriented usage of analogies) is out of scope for #formalization (i.e., a #mechanism - no new #knowledge without the re-appraisal of believes in the light of new evidence (i.e, #abduction or #retroduction. Without "sociology of knowledge" the very idea of "objectivity of knowledge", in the Popperian sense, doesn't work (e.g., #Haack S. "Epistemology with a knowing subject." 1979). #philosophy #ai

2023-01-04

@jef

William #Whewell's notion of #Consilience is often mentioned in this connection. It was later picked up by #EOWilson.

#Peirce's #Pragmatism takes some pains to side-step the superficial dichotomy between #Objectivism or #Foundationalism and #Coherentism or #Consensualism.

Susan #Haack, for instance, tries to integrate them in her concept of #Foundherentism.

Well, that's enough isms for one day ...

Ben Caudronbencaudron
2022-11-22

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