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Possibility of Knowledge
Possibility of Knowledge

The possibility of knowledge is related to the questions:
* Is the human being can know?
* How valuable is human knowledge?
For thesequestions, several scientific currents have tried to give a solution
Possibility of Knowledge:
* Dogmatism: Affirms the possibility of knowledge. No discussion is allowed.
* Skepticism: No onecan know, as opposed to dogmatism. Pyrrho of Elis
* Subjectivism: The truth is in the subject. Protagoras.
* Relativism: The truth is limited. Oswald Spengler.
* Pragmatism: Identity ofknowledge for practical purposes. William James.
* Criticism: You agree that you may know, but always alert questioning the truth. Kant.
Origin of Knowledge
Origin of Knowledge

*Rationalism: The bottom line is the reason. Descartes.
Rationalism states that the foundation of human knowledge is the reason. For there to be a true knowledge must have the character of universality andnecessity. One of the modern representatives of this doctrine is René Descartes.
* Empiricism: All knowledge is born of experience: Bacon, Locke and Hume.
Empiricism is a theory of knowledge thatasserts that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience
* Intellectualism: Interrelation of experience and thought.
Intellectualism denotes the use, development, and exercise ofthe intellect; the practice of being an intellectual; and the Life of the Mind. In the field of philosophy, “intellectualism” occasionally is synonymous with “rationalism”, that is, knowledge mostlyderived from reason and ratiocination
* Apriorism: It has its source in the senses. Kant
Apriorism In epistemology, knowledge that is independent of all particular experiences, as opposed to aposteriori (or empirical) knowledge, which derives from experience. The terms have their origins in the medieval Scholastic debate over Aristotelian concepts (see Scholasticism). Immanuel Kant...