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According to Chisholm, the "commonsense approach" to epistemology starts by assuming an answer to this question:
{ 1 } - "What do we know?"
{ 2 } - "What is the best and most adequate general conceptual scheme for describing the world?"
{ 3 } - "What ultimately exists in the world?"
{ 4 } - "How are we to decide, in any particular case, whether we know?"
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According to Chisholm, the "commonsense approach" to epistemology starts by assuming an answer to this question:
{ 1 } - "What do we know?"
{ 2 } - "What is the best and most adequate general conceptual scheme for describing the world?"
{ 3 } - "What ultimately exists in the world?"
{ 4 } - "How are we to decide, in any particular case, whether we know?"
The "commonsense approach" starts by assuming that we have genuine knowledge about, for example, external objects, mathematics, other minds, God, or moral truths. Then it tries to construct a theory to explain how such knowledge is possible.
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According to Chisholm, the "commonsense approach" to epistemology starts by assuming an answer to this question:
{ 1 } - "What do we know?"
{ 2 } - "What is the best and most adequate general conceptual scheme for describing the world?"
{ 3 } - "What ultimately exists in the world?"
{ 4 } - "How are we to decide, in any particular case, whether we know?"
This question is about metaphysics.
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According to Chisholm, the "commonsense approach" to epistemology starts by assuming an answer to this question:
{ 1 } - "What do we know?"
{ 2 } - "What is the best and most adequate general conceptual scheme for describing the world?"
{ 3 } - "What ultimately exists in the world?"
{ 4 } - "How are we to decide, in any particular case, whether we know?"
This question is about ontology.
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According to Chisholm, the "commonsense approach" to epistemology starts by assuming an answer to this question:
{ 1 } - "What do we know?"
{ 2 } - "What is the best and most adequate general conceptual scheme for describing the world?"
{ 3 } - "What ultimately exists in the world?"
{ 4 } - "How are we to decide, in any particular case, whether we know?"
The rival "empiricist approach" starts by assuming that real knowledge is somehow grounded in experience. On this basis, it tries to decide whether we have genuine knowledge of external objects -- or mathematics -- or other minds -- or God -- or moral truths.
The "commonsense approach" doesn't start this way.
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