ISSN:
1572-8587
Keywords:
Diallelus
;
Foundationalism
;
Justification
;
Meta-epistemological
;
Petitio Principii
;
Scepticism
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Philosophy
,
Nature of Science, Research, Systems of Higher Education, Museum Science
Notes:
Summary The article concerns the meta-epistemological problem of the justification of a theory of knowledge and provides a reconstruction of the history of its formulations. In the first section, I analyse the connections between Sextus Empiricus'diallelus, Montaigne'srouet and Chisholm's “problem of criterion”; in the second section I focus on the link between thediallelus and the Cartesian circle; in the third section I reconstruct the origin of “Fries' trilemma”; finally, in the last section I draw some general conclusions about the issuequa a general problem for a theory of knowledge.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00764387
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