The KK (Knowing that One Knows) Principle In its simplest form, the KK principle says that, for any proposition p, if one knows that p, then one knows that one knows it. More complex formulations say that if one knows that p, then one is in a position to know that one knows it, and this is fleshed out in a variety of ways. One

Fondamentalisme Le fondationnalisme épistémique est une vision de la structure appropriée de ses connaissances ou de ses croyances justifiées.. Certaines croyances sont connues ou fondées à croire uniquement parce que d’autres croyances sont connues ou fondées à croire.. Par exemple, vous ne pouvez savoir que vous souffrez d'une maladie cardiaque que si vous connaissez d'autres allégations, telles que celles signalées par vos médecins et si les médecins sont fiables.. Le soutien que ces croyances apportent

A Priori and A Posteriori The terms “a priori” and “a posteriori” are used primarily to denote the foundations upon which a proposition is known. A given proposition is knowable a priori if it can be known independent of any experience other than the experience of learning the language in which the proposition is expressed, whereas a proposition that is knowable a posteriori is known

René Descartes: The Mind-Body Distinction One of the deepest and most lasting legacies of Descartes’ philosophy is his thesis that mind and body are really distinct—a thesis now called “mind-body dualism.” He reaches this conclusion by arguing that the nature of the mind (c'est, a thinking, non-extended thing) is completely different from that of the body (c'est, an extended, non-thinking thing), and therefore it

Edmond Husserl: Phenomenology of Embodiment For Husserl, the body is not an extended physical substance in contrast to a non-extended mind, but a lived “here” from which all “there’s” are “there”; a locus of distinctive sorts of sensations that can only be felt firsthand by the embodied experiencer concerned; and a coherent system of movement possibilities allowing us to experience every moment of our situated,