chapter "Knowledge, Error, and Probable Opinion"
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"Knowledge, Error, and Probable Opinion" is a chapter in Bertrand Russell's philosophical work The Problems of Philosophy that examines the nature and limits of human knowledge, the possibility of error, and the role of probability in our beliefs.
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book chapter
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philosophical text → |
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analyze the possibility of error in human cognition
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clarify what can be known with certainty → distinguish knowledge from probable opinion → |
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Bertrand Russell
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conditions under which beliefs count as knowledge
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epistemic limits of human cognition → |
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United Kingdom
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criteria for knowledge
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degrees of belief → distinction between knowledge and opinion → epistemic justification → fallibility of human beliefs → probable knowledge → relation between truth and belief → role of evidence in belief → skepticism about certainty → |
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epistemology
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philosophy → |
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Bertrand Russell as epistemologist
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prose exposition
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introductory epistemology education
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early 20th-century epistemology canon
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a work first published in 1912
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English
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certainty and uncertainty
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justification of belief → limits of human knowledge → nature of knowledge → possibility of error in belief → probability in epistemology → probable opinion → |
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"The Problems of Philosophy"
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theory of knowledge
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fallibilism
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probabilism in belief → |
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"The Problems of Philosophy"
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general educated readers
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students of philosophy → |
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analytic philosophy tradition
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non-fiction
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The Problems of Philosophy
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