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How Do We Know?: An Introduction to Epistemology is unavailable, but you can change that!

What does it mean to know something? Can we have confidence in our knowledge? Epistemology, the study of knowledge, can often seem like a daunting subject. And yet few topics are more basic to human life. We are inquisitive creatures by nature, and the unending quest for truth leads us to raise difficult questions about the quest itself. What are the conditions, sources, and limits of our...

postmodern thinkers may be comfortable with this kind of relativism, it is problematic and difficult for most human beings to accept. As Kelly notes, this understanding of truth “makes a shambles of our intuitive understanding of what it is for something to be true.”9 Additionally, this view would violate the law of noncontradiction. According to this law, it is impossible for something to be true while its exact opposite is also true at the same time. More formally, it states that both A and non-A
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