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Lecture I

Leonard Nelson

pp. 21-28

Résumé

Philosophy, as the search for truth, is a matter of thinking, reasoning and arguing correctly; and so the interest in truth implies trying to avoid fallacies. Intuition cannot be a source of knowledge allowing us to attain truth in philosophy; in fact, the results of intuition-led philosophy contradict both the facts of experience and each other. Current fashionable forms of pseudo-philosophy are averse to reasoning, for they either despair of ever attaining truth or else trust in intuition as their guide. Nonetheless, a certain "feeling for truth", which is not the same as intuition, is crucial for philosophical thinking and argumentation.

Détails de la publication

Publié dans:

Nelson Leonard (2016) A theory of philosophical fallacies. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 21-28

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-20783-4_2

Citation complète:

Nelson Leonard, 2016, Lecture I. In L. Nelson A theory of philosophical fallacies (21-28). Dordrecht, Springer.