
HoP 036 - A Principled Stand - Aristotle's Epistemology
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Aristotle: The Demonstrative Chain Must Me to an End
Aristotle is what we nowadays call a foundationalist. He grounds all knowledge on some fundamental certain truths. These are, of course, not themselves demonstrated. So how do we know them? Aristotle dismisses as absurd the idea that we know these things already,. But aristotle isn't relentlessly committed to the idea that all our knowledge somehow depends on sensation.
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