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Course: Wireless Philosophy > Unit 2
Lesson 5: Epistemology- Epistemology: Argument and Evidence
- Epistemology: Science, Can It Teach Us Everything?
- Epistemology: The Will to Believe
- Epistemology: Reason and Faith
- Epistemology: Sleeping Beauty
- Epistemology: Rationality
- Epistemology: Paradoxes of Perception #1 (Argument from Illusion)
- Epistemology: Paradoxes of Perception #2 (Argument from Hallucination)
- Epistemology: The Paradox of the Ravens
- Epistemology: The Puzzle of Grue
- Epistemology: The Preface Paradox
- Epistemology: The Value of Knowledge
- Virtue Epistemology
- Epistemology: The Epistemic Regress Problem
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Epistemology: The Preface Paradox
Everybody has false beliefs, including you. But that means everyone's beliefs are self-contradictory. If we wrote down everything you believe in a book, we'd have to include one more statement in the book's preface: "some of the statements in this book are false". In this Wireless Philosophy video, Jonathan Weisberg (University of Toronto) explains the infamous "Paradox of the Preface", and what it might teach us about belief, reason, and logic.
Want to join the conversation?
- Why a 10-minute video?
All you needed to say is, "People are just not perfect"
That is all!
M.L.M.(1 vote) - Actually there is a way to prove that the earth is round,
You stand up a straight pole and measure its shadow from length then you have someone miles away in a straight line away from you do the same and if both of the measurements aren't the same the earth is round because if it was flat then the shadow would be the same because doing the pole side by side your measurements will be the same.(I don't have time to explain it through and through)(1 vote)