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Chapter 3 - Sources of Knowledge and Their Individuation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2021

René van Woudenberg
René van Woudenberg
Affiliation:
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
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Why is reading never thought of as a source of knowledge? This chapter analyzes, first, what it is for something to be a source of knowledge and, second, by what kind of principles acknowledged sources of knowledge have been individuated. It is shown that epistemologists have used five kinds of principles, and it is argued that reading can be individuated by means of some of those principles.

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Sources of KnowledgeIndividuation Principles of Sources of KnowledgePerceptionMemoryReasonTestimonyMoral IntuitionReadingStanislas Dehaene
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The Epistemology of Reading and Interpretation , pp. 57 - 82
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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