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Another major subject of debate is the sources of justification, which might include perceptual experience (the evidence of the senses), reason, and authoritative...

epistemological ideas in works such as The Evidence of the Senses (1986) and A Theory of Abstraction (2001). Regarding the topic of ethics, Kelley has argued in...

sensation, the process of gathering information about the surroundings through the detection of stimuli. Although, in some cultures, five human senses were...

René Descartes, who said that the existence of a benevolent God is logically necessary for the evidence of the senses to be meaningful. John Calvin argued...

The dream argument is the postulation that the act of dreaming provides preliminary evidence that the senses we trust to distinguish reality from illusion...

doctoral dissertation, titled "The Evidence of the Senses", under the supervision of Richard Rorty. He was an assistant professor of philosophy and cognitive...

chiliagon as evidence that "intuition is not necessarily founded on the evidence of the senses" because "we can not represent to ourselves a chiliagon, and yet...

based on the evidence of the senses. Both natural and social sciences use working hypotheses that are testable by observation and experiment. The term semi-empirical...

one can believe without possibly being proven wrong. Notably, the evidence of the senses is not seen as properly basic because, Descartes argued, all our...

on the assumption that it is a good reason for holding it. Sources of justification might include perceptual experience (the evidence of the senses), reason...

Kelley's The Evidence of the Senses, George H. Smith's Atheism: The Case Against God, and the treatise, What Art Is: the Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand by...

and Hume to a skepticism that called religion and the evidence of the senses equally into question. The common sense realists found skepticism to be absurd...

reason, but are also proved by the evidence of the senses. — Jeffrey Edwards, "Leibniz’s Aristotelian Dynamism and the Idea of a Transition from Metaphysics...

mistaken mathematical imagining as the pure evidence of the senses.. Goethe tried to define the scientific function of imagination: to interrelate phenomena...

evidence: intellectual evidence or what is self-evident and empirical evidence or evidence accessible through the senses. Other fields, including the...

the special senses are the senses that have specialized organs devoted to them: vision (the eye) hearing and balance (the ear, which includes the auditory...

Copernicanism. These were "the evidence of the senses, the thousand-year consensus of men of science, and the authority of the Bible". Blasting the new theory Melanchthon...

powerful as the direct evidence of the senses. That said, he provides some reasons why we may have a basis for trust in the testimony of persons: because...

believe only what can be supported either by rational proof, by the evidence of the senses, or by trustworthy authority. He affirms that he had studied astrology...

impossible. The first example argues that denial of the premise would result in a ridiculous conclusion, against the evidence of our senses. The second example...