PHIL 101 Lecture Notes - Foundationalism
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Foundationalism: an approach to thinking about the structure if all our beliefs. All knowledge is founded upon metaphysics, it is constructed from the bottom up, we have to get back down to the principles to understand knowledge*. Descartes using methodological doubt can systematically examine all beliefs and determine which ones are the axioms" foundational beliefs for our knowledge. Is it possible to make up a story in which both : (1) i believe p (2) p is false. If yes -> p fails the mdt and the belief is not foundational. If no -> p passes the mdt and the belief is foundational. (impossible to doubt) Non-possible p"s are real (foundational), they pass the mdt. All a posteriori beliefs fail the mdt beliefs based on senses are subject to mdt. All first person psychological states pass the mdt. I seem to be in philosophy class right now .
