Re: dhw--Epistemological Framework (Order of Rank?) (Humans)

by David Turell @, Saturday, March 05, 2011, 22:34 (4820 days ago) @ xeno6696


> Thomism is dismissed because he asserts that we can know truth. We can't. 
> Realism--Thomist variety included, makes this distinction: "Contemporary philosophical realism is the belief that our reality is completely ontologically independent of our conceptual schemes, linguistic practices, beliefs, etc."
> 
> This has been rejected by philosophers since Hume, with very few notable exceptions, primarily because linguistic relativism is accepted as a fact among humans.-I understand your explanation, but where I am stuck is "First Cause" I know we do not see reality as it really is, but everything I know has a cause.


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