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What a great question. In order to answer it, one must be clear about opinion, belief, truth, knowledge of truth, and truth values. First we must be clear about what can be true or false. The only
The best introduction is going to be Jean-Paul Sartre's essay, "Existentialism is Humanism." You should be able to find a copy on the web. Wait....here's one: http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/works/exist/sartre
There are scores who talk about culture affecting perception...Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer, Habermas, and add all the structuralists, e.g. Levi-Strauss, Foucault, and the post-structuralists
Yes, the only perceptions we have are of ideas, not physical objects. We don't have chairs or books in our heads, only the ideas present before our mind. To get around the solipsism created by this
1. In the western tradition, "axiomatic" epistemology has been the standard from Plato and Aristotle up through Kant, Hegel, et. al. It is when you get to Husserl that a "presuppositionless" approach
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