Sentences with phrase «epistemology primarily»

In other words, epistemology primarily addresses the following questions: «What is knowledge?»

There Whitehead compares his own epistemology primarily to Hume's and Kant's epistemologies, but also to that trust in mental experience which has passed from Descartes, to Locke, to Berkeley.

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Aristotelian worldview dominated Arab philosophy primarily because it provided an apparatus to doubt the prophetic - mystical routes to knowledge and to shore up the rational epistemology.

That is, it would be to misunderstand James to identify him primarily through his epistemology, his pluralistic cosmology, or his test of truth.

When he developed the objectivist epistemology that encompassed the first part of Leviathan, when he argued, contrary to all the ancients, that nature «dissociates,» he did so, against the background of civil war, primarily to secure a rational foundation for politics so that such wars could be avoided in the future.