Epistemology

Epistemology, Philosophy

Consistency as the Criterion of Truth

Reading Time: 8 minutes

8th Sep 2020

How do we know when something is true? What does it mean to know? How do we define true?

Epistemology, Philosophy

Learning From Experience

Reading Time: 17 minutes

17th Jun 2020

How do we learn from experience? As we accumulate data about the world, we can form better and better guesses about how that experience reflects reality. Better yet, we can quantify it, with statistics and probability.

Philosophy, Epistemology

How Do You Know?

Reading Time: 9 minutes

4th Jun 2020

Although most children seem to have no trouble reciting their age when asked, they usually have a lot more trouble answering my follow-up question: "how do you know?"