Lexicon of Arguments

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I 113
Epistemic/Evauate/Chisholm: epistemic terms: E.g. What is reasonable? - Restraint? - E.g. if agnosticism is not more reasonable than theism, then theism is more reasonable.
I 115
Epistemic levels - e.g. atheism: hold suspected for something - be acceptable - beyond a reasonable doubt - evident - certainly - (applies to propositions). >Propositions.
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II 47-52
Epistemic terms/Chisholm: basic concept: more reasonable than; acceptable, certain, evident - SchrammVsChisholm: when objectively reasonable, then independent from the subject, then independent from accepting, even from knowledge, etc. >Knowledge.
It must also be possible that the subject act according to what it does not believe - even against evidence! >Evidence.
Solution/Chisholm: self-presentation "factual component": the subject agrees. >Subjectivity, >Objectivity.
SchrammVs: Dilemma
a) an objective rationality lacks factual components
b) when the subject is consenting the concepts do not obey the epistemic logic
Schramm: always something new is "more reasonable". >Rationality.


Schramm, Alfred. Ein Dilemma für Chisholm „Begriffe der epistemischen Bewertung“. In: M.David/L. Stubenberg (Hg) Philosophische Aufsätze zu Ehren von R.M. Chisholm Graz 1986

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