Knowledge / Epistemology

 Here's the posts about theories of knowledge, AKA epistemology.


The Mythical Metaphorical Quest for Real Knowledge of How to Relieve Suffering - Allegory showing the problems in choosing between realism and anti-realism.

Strongest Support for Anti-Realism is 'Rhf-Gumnlad Hoopiewid' - preparation for the Great Epistemic Quagmire.

Who Says Contradictions are OK? - Maybe Quine did.

Transcendental Epistemologies and Their Benevolent Detractors - Is an epistemic theory beyond sense an incubator for malevolence?

Buddhist Enlightenment in a Pill - Also "realist" enlightenment

Pragmatism/Realism Entanglement

Pragmatist Enlightenment

How Pragmatists Outrun Their Nonsense

Valid Pragmaticness

Valid Pragmaticness 2

Revisiting the Form Versus Object Distinction

Letter to David Kelley: Whole Entities and Floating Percepts

Metaphysical Meandering from Jordan Peterson to an Odd Refutation of Anti-Realism

The Meaning of Impossible Things

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