Groundless Belief : : An Essay on the Possibility of Epistemology - Second Edition / / Michael Williams.
Inspired by the work of Wilfrid Sellars, Michael Williams launches an all-out attack on what he calls "phenomenalism," the idea that our knowledge of the world rests on a perceptual or experiential foundation. The point of this wider-than-normal usage of the term "phenomenalism,"...
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