Certism
Certism [lat. "Certus" = certain] is in the philosophy of science, in contrast to fallibilism, a fundamental position that raises to the program, the validity of knowledge through the principle of sufficient justification to a safe starting point ("Archimedean point"), for example through a deductive proof. Representatives are considered to be: from Aristotle to Euclid , from Immanuel Kant and Hegel to Hugo Dingler , Bertrand Russell and Rudolf Carnap .
The term was coined by Helmut Spinner introduced, which in critical rationalism usual alternative setting criticism vs. Dogmatism through the philosophically appropriate alternative fallibilism vs. Certismus has replaced. In the history of philosophy, Spinner traces the origin of Certism back to Parmenides , who first established the theory of knowledge with the introduction of ideas of legal thought . In spite of the abandonment of a firm foundation of knowledge, fallibilism itself is of course not without a fundamental problem that it is assigned to solve.
With the alternative fallibilism vs. Certismus be in the knowledge of theory, the justification oriented to widerlegungsorientierten juxtaposed positions to each other. However, since not all justification-oriented concepts necessarily aim at a final justification , ie an absolutely secure or certain knowledge base, it is questionable whether this alternative is really exhaustive, ie whether all non-fallibilistic positions are appropriately characterized by the term “certism”. In this respect, certism (in the sense of “absolutely secure foundation”) only marks the extreme type of a justification-oriented epistemology.
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- ↑ Helmut F. Spinner: Pluralism as a model of knowledge. Frankfurt 1974. p. 25
- ↑ Helmut F. Spinner: Justification, Criticism and Rationality. Vol. I. Vieweg Braunschweig 1977. p. 5
- ↑ Helmut F. Spinner: Justification, Criticism and Rationality. Vol. I. Vieweg Braunschweig 1977. p. 126
- ↑ Helmut F. Spinner: Justification, Criticism and Rationality. Vol. I. Vieweg Braunschweig 1977. S. IX
- ↑ Peter Schroeder-Heister: Certismus ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: J. Mittelstraß (ed.), Encyclopedia Philosophy and Philosophy of Science. Vol. 2 (CF), 2nd edition Stuttgart / Weimar 2005.
literature
- Hugo Dingler (Ed. Paul Lorenzen ): Structure of the exact fundamental science. Munich 1964.
- Helmut F. Spinner: Justification, Criticism and Rationality. Vol. I. Vieweg Braunschweig 1977. ISBN 3-528-08376-X .
- Jürgen Mittelstraß : Against the Dingler complex. In: Ders .: The possibility of science. 1974, ISBN 978-3-518-27662-4