27 septembre 2017
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Jonathan Gorman, « Chapter 5. Rational Economic Man », Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press, ID : 10670/1.zlw1iw
Claims to knowledge, including claims to historical knowledge, require rational justification if they are to be admitted. The standard for rational justification which has been conditionally adopted in this book is empiricism, but we have seen that empiricism needs to be supplemented by background metaphysical assumptions — assumptions not themselves based on experience — which tell us what experience (particularly, historical experience) is experience of. In chapter 4 we introduced the backg...