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Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2016

Pages: 21-28

Series: Argumentation Library

ISBN (Hardback): 9783319207827

Full citation:

, "Lecture I", in: A theory of philosophical fallacies, Berlin, Springer, 2016

Abstract

Philosophy, as the search for truth, is a matter of thinking, reasoning and arguing correctly; and so the interest in truth implies trying to avoid fallacies. Intuition cannot be a source of knowledge allowing us to attain truth in philosophy; in fact, the results of intuition-led philosophy contradict both the facts of experience and each other. Current fashionable forms of pseudo-philosophy are averse to reasoning, for they either despair of ever attaining truth or else trust in intuition as their guide. Nonetheless, a certain "feeling for truth", which is not the same as intuition, is crucial for philosophical thinking and argumentation.

Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2016

Pages: 21-28

Series: Argumentation Library

ISBN (Hardback): 9783319207827

Full citation:

, "Lecture I", in: A theory of philosophical fallacies, Berlin, Springer, 2016