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Epicurean Epistemology: Criteria for truth: Epicurean epistemology has three criteria of truth: The first criterion, sensation, holds that all sense perceptions are inherently true and are unable to…
Previously we discussed Epicurean ethics, and as I mentioned, his hedonism was a systematic hedonism with a proper metaphysical/epistemological framework. Because he had a huge influence on 17th-century…
Plato’s Timaeus present a cosmology in which the Demiurge plays an important role in shaping the cosmos according to the eternal Forms. But, the claim that Forms are…
Syllogism In his book Prior Analytics, Aristotle introduced the concept of syllogism. Syllogism is a form of reasoning through which conclusions can be drawn based on specific assumptions…
Friedrich Nietzsche’s famous phrase “God is dead” first appears in his book The Gay Science (Die fröhliche Wissenschaft) in the poem The Madman. In this poem, a madman…