Methodological doubt
What Methodological doubt means in Philosophy A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Doubt used as a tool to reach certainty, as in Descartes' use of hyperbolic doubt, distinguished from scepticism as a conclusion.
Doubt used to find an indubitable foundation, not a claim that nothing exists.
Topics that use Methodological doubt
- The limits of knowledge (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Assessment of Descartes' response to scepticism
- Empiricism
- Normal incredulity
- Philosophical scepticism
- Reliabilism
- Reliable process
- Scope of doubt
- Sense-data and inference
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