Livre | Chapitre
Unthinking assumptions and their justification
pp. 105-113
Résumé
There are certain propositions which philosophers, at one time or another, have said we "unthinkingly assume" or "instinctively believe". One such proposition is that there are about us entities, "physical objects", which can and do exist unperceived. To say that this is something we unthinkingly assume is to imply that it is a matter for dispute whether it is true. Talk of "unthinking assumptions' is thus tied up with the idea that the philosopher's job is somehow to justify, or else show to be unjustified, what we ordinarily neither question nor think of questioning.
Détails de la publication
Publié dans:
Vesey Godfrey (1991) Inner and outer: essays on a philosophical myth. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Pages: 105-113
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-21639-0_7
Citation complète:
Vesey Godfrey, 1991, Unthinking assumptions and their justification. In G. Vesey Inner and outer (105-113). Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.