关键词: Aristotelian science Common sense Function Modern science Substance

来  源:   DOI:10.1016/j.shpsa.2020.01.007   PDF(Sci-hub)

Abstract:
This paper seeks to exhibit and explain, by way of comparison, two ideal kinds of knowledge: knowledge based on classifications according to genera and species, as in Aristotelianism and common sense, and scientific knowledge based on the application of laws of nature. I will proceed by attempting (1) to determine the role that presuppositions play in knowledge in general by means of the distinction between content and form; (2) to describe and explain the main features of both ideal forms of knowledge; and, finally, (3) to analyze the relation between these two forms of knowledge as it is presented in Eddington\'s celebrated discussion of the \"two tables\". I will be critical of the widespread view that modern science is the correct form of knowledge, and that common sense is merely an illusion.
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