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May 31, 2024 · Ranalli’s reason for advancing this contention is that he maintains that the dominant account of epistemic value in contemporary epistemology is the thesis that truth is the fundamental epistemic good, such that all other epistemic standings have merely an instrumental value relative to that fundamental epistemic good.
May 31, 2024 · Based on a broad concept of culture as “shared mental worlds and their embodiments” (Jasper 1997, p. 12), cultural contexts can be understood—not in an essentialist sense, mind you—as widely shared, changeable and socially constructed values, attitudes and practices in (more or less heterogeneous) societies and social groups. If these ...
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23 hours ago · Ignore or deny information that conflicts with existing beliefs ("This doughnut is not a high-sugar food.") Three cognitive biases are components of dissonance theory. The bias where one feels they do not have any biases. The bias where one is "better, kinder, smarter, more moral and nicer than average" and the confirmation bias.
23 hours ago · Baruch (de) Spinoza (24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677), also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin.
May 31, 2024 · Current science would be inconceivable without mathematics: this is surely evidence of the success of mathematics as a scientific enterprise. Mathematical methodology, like scientific methodology, has been revised over time according to the needs arising in its own development, and has been found adequate for the development of science over thousands of years.
23 hours ago · Religious conservatives focus on conducting society based on the morals prescribed by fundamentalist religious authorities, rejecting secularism and moral relativism. In the United States, this translates into hard-line stances on moral issues, such as opposition to abortion , LGBT rights , feminism , pornography , comprehensive sex education ...
May 31, 2024 · Suffering is relative and does therefore not absolutely exist. (f) It is a necessary consequence of freedom (incl. bad actions from supranatural beings). (g) It is required to test us. (h) It is required to teach us some important lesson and let us grow. (i) It is required for selection to work and life to climb higher levels of complexity in ...
