Structuring a Philosophical Approach - Open Journal of Philosophy

OJPP > Vol.9 No.4, November 2019

Structuring a Philosophical Approach ()

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DOI: 10.4236/ojpp.2019.94028 638 Downloads 2,218 Views Citations

Author(s)

Richard Startup

Affiliation(s)

Honorary Research Fellow, Swansea University, Swansea, UK.

ABSTRACT

A framework is developed for understanding what is “taken for granted” both in philosophy and in life generally, which may serve to orient philosophical inquiry and make it more effective. The framework takes in language and its development, as well as mathematics, logic, and the empirical sphere with particular reference to the exigencies of life. It is evaluated through consideration of seven philosophical issues concerned with such topics as solipsism, sense data as the route to knowledge, the possible reduction of geometry to logic, and the existence and status of human rights. Various dichotomies and the notion of continuity are evidently highly strategic.

KEYWORDS

Certainty, Wittgenstein, Scepticism, Language, The “Taken for Granted”

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Startup, R. (2019) Structuring a Philosophical Approach. Open Journal of Philosophy, 9, 452-469. doi: 10.4236/ojpp.2019.94028.

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