1: Occam’s Razor has already been covered. The concept inherently rests (unless you take William of Ockham’s original version, which cannot be applied in the same way) on empirical observations about the world- which are the things under doubt.
2: The argument started on if it is rational to trust the senses, and turned into an argument about the proper rules to decide that question. Such a question cannot be solved empirically. Besides, such a rule cannot justify itself as it is not empirically rooted.
3: I considered this possibility, but wasn’t confident enough to claim it because rarely, despite the nature of human concepts, a simplistic explanation actually works. For example, that “a trout is a type of fish” is true as a linguistic statement, no clarification or deeper understanding of the human mind required.
My mind is good at Verbal Comphrehension skills, such as Philosophy and Law. To get into Law at Melbourne, I need to get good marks. Philosophy is a subject at which I get good marks, and fun because of how my brain works, so I do it. I take a genuine interest because I like the intellectual stimulation and I want to be right about the sort of things philosophy covers.
1: Occam’s Razor has already been covered. The concept inherently rests (unless you take William of Ockham’s original version, which cannot be applied in the same way) on empirical observations about the world- which are the things under doubt.
2: The argument started on if it is rational to trust the senses, and turned into an argument about the proper rules to decide that question. Such a question cannot be solved empirically. Besides, such a rule cannot justify itself as it is not empirically rooted.
3: I considered this possibility, but wasn’t confident enough to claim it because rarely, despite the nature of human concepts, a simplistic explanation actually works. For example, that “a trout is a type of fish” is true as a linguistic statement, no clarification or deeper understanding of the human mind required.
My mind is good at Verbal Comphrehension skills, such as Philosophy and Law. To get into Law at Melbourne, I need to get good marks. Philosophy is a subject at which I get good marks, and fun because of how my brain works, so I do it. I take a genuine interest because I like the intellectual stimulation and I want to be right about the sort of things philosophy covers.