Titlebook: Knowing from Words; Western and Indian P Bimal Krishna Matilal,Arindam Chakrabarti Book 1994 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1994

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History, Testimony, and Two Kinds of Scepticism,e not so much refuted this thesis as underestimated its importance, anchoring their epistemologies in perception and inference. I think this is to be regretted, for it seems to me to be both important and true. Philosophers must come to terms with the central fact that most of our beliefs are based on testimony.

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Book 1994ant issue at the confluence of thesetwo branches of philosophy, namely: Can we .know. facts fromreliable reports? Besides Hume‘s subversive discussion of miracles andthe literature thereon, testimony has been bypassed by most Westernphilosophers; whereas in classical Indian (Pramana) theories ofevid

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0166-6991 ted important issue at the confluence of thesetwo branches of philosophy, namely: Can we .know. facts fromreliable reports? Besides Hume‘s subversive discussion of miracles andthe literature thereon, testimony has been bypassed by most Westernphilosophers; whereas in classical Indian (Pramana) theor

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Is there an Irreducible Mode of Word-Generated Knowledge?,tand the issues involved, we must attend to the way the controversy was formulated. The question was: is . (word) a ., a means of knowledge? The two key terms involved in this question need to be correctly understood. . means sound or word, in the present context, it should be taken to mean an utterance of a sentence.

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,Testimony, Observation and “Autonomous Knowledge”,phical, transport and accommodation information from others. In the sciences, we talk of what is known and has been proved in hosts of instances where we have not done the proving or “done the knowing”, and often this is in contexts where we wouldn’t have the individual resources for the relevant investigations anyway.

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