Personal Knowledge |
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| A: All knowledge is personal knowledge, owned
by persons and psychologically equivalent to beliefs. There is no alternative
to personal knowledge. more |
B: Our personal commitment is to nothing less
than the truth. Truth is real, objective, unique, universal, and coherent.
We are to seek the truth and justify our findings. more |
| -B:"Knowledge" is indistinguishable
from arbitrary beliefs within an individual's belief system. There is no
absolute or universal belief system; no way to decide truth objectively.
Subjectivity. Relativism. more |
-A: All real knowledge must be objective, that
is, empirically verified to be called true; knowledge is impersonal and
independent of subjective judgements. Objectivity. Positivism. more |