Sentences with phrase «knowledge of pure possibility»

8The theory of propositional knowledge for real possibilities has strong affinities with Luis de Molina's middle knowledge, which is between the knowledge of actualities and the knowledge of pure possibilities.

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But, even in the fundamental thinkers of high modernity, hints can be found that knowledge requires God: Descartes uses God in the Meditations in order to escape from the interiority where the cogito has stranded him; Kant uses God as a postulate of pure practical reason in order to hold on to the possibility of morality.

Methodological skepticism is distinguished from philosophical skepticism in that methodological skepticism is an approach that subjects all knowledge claims to scrutiny with the goal of sorting out true from false claims, whereas philosophical skepticism is an approach that questions the possibility of pure knowledge.