This seems to a major idea that holds the blocks of philosophy together. ... This is important since we must know how to test our definitions of truth, to find truths. ... Indian philosophy believes that "truth is a self evident character of all knowledge," and "every knowledge is true and known to be true by its nature." ... The Sankhya, Mimamsa, and Advaita Vedanta systems of Indian Philosophy introduce the theory of intrinsic validity. ...

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Locke is considered to be the founder of British empiricism, while Descartes is considered to be the father of modern philosophy. ... Like logic it is a demonstrative science, mathematical truths are true by definition. Berkeley's radical opposition to the received view of mathematics in the philosophy of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when mathematics was considered a "science of abstractions." ...

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In this paper, I aim to raise a number of difficulties in Laurence Bonjour's coherence theory of epistemic justification and in doing so, I intend to provide special focus on difficulties that arise from the limitations of language as it is used in the discursive manner by which a philosophical theory is constructed. To make an initial clarification, what I have in mind is an image of a philosopher who first intends to create a theory and then proceeds to construct and strengthen his or her theory in a discursive and elaborative manner in which language inevitably plays an indispensable ...

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