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Bilgi Arayışında Tamamlayıcı Öğeler Olarak Kesinlik ve Şüphecilik

Certitude and Scepticism as Complementary in the Search for Knowledge

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  • Kaygı: Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Dergisi

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  • 2012

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This paper proposes that the demand for certainty and the continual raising of the doubts (skepticism) about our epistemic claims be seen and considered as efforts toward the same direction, namely, to attain knowledge. This has become necessary as the debate between certitude and scepticism in traditional western epistemology attends to the concept of certitude and skepticism as if they are exclusive and contradictory. This has left the revolving discussion in an endless debate The search for certitude in our knowledge claims is to ensure that we have justification for our claims to knowledge and the skeptical considerations that over shadow our knowledge claims are equally demands that we have justification for our knowledge claims so that we do not treat mistaken opinions or lucky or educated guess as knowledge. The African theory of knowledge, which is built on African ontology that treats the divide between the object and subject as two aspects of the same reality, encourages this proposal. As such, this paper analyses and evaluates the debate between certitude and skepticism as we have it in traditional western and African epistemology, thus providing the grounds on which the proposal to consider certitude and skepticism as complementary in the search for knowledge.
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Abstract (Original Language): 
Bu makale, epistemik iddialarımıza yönelik kesinlik talebini ve şüphelerin sürekli ortaya çıkışını, aynı yöne doğru yol olan, yani bilgi etmeye yönelik olan, çabalar olarak görülüp değerlendirilebileceğini ileri sürer. Geleneksel batı epistemolojisi içinde kesinlik ve şüphecilik arasındaki tartışma, kesinlik ve şüphecilik kavramlarına onlar sanki ayrıcalıklı ve tutarsızmış gibi baktığından, bu sözü edilen değerlendirme zorunlu hale gelmiştir. Bu bakış, tartışmayı sonsuz bir münakaşaya bırakmıştır. Bilgimize yönelik kesinlik arayışı, bilgi iddialarımız için bir haklılandırmanın temin edilebileceğini ileri sürer ve bilgi iddialarımıza gölge düşüren şüpheci değerlendirmeler de, hatalı kanıları ya da şanslı ve eğitimli tahminleri bilgi olarak ele alamayacağımıza ilişkin bir bilgi iddiasının haklılandırılabileceğini eşit derecede savunur. Özne ve nesne arasındaki bölünmeyi, aynı gerçekliğin iki görünüşü olarak ele alan Afrika ontolojisi üzerinde kurulmuş olan Afrika epistemolojisi, bu öneriyi destekler. Bu makale, kesinlik ve şüphecilik arasındaki tartışmayı geleneksel batı ve Afrika epistemolojisinde olduğu gibi analiz etmekte ve değerlendirmektedir, böylece kesinliğin ve şüpheciliğin, bilginin arayışında tamamlayıcı öğeler olarak değerlendiren öneriye temeller sağlayacaktır.
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