There is a branch of philosophy concerned specifically with how we justify our beliefs. The chief concern of "epistemic justification" is determining what counts as a good reason for believing something and how we come about those reasons. While there is a smorgasbord of different theories, one of the bigger is known as "coherentism."Coherentism is a view that settles for circular reasoning. It does so knowingly because the alternatives are just as bad, if not worse.

Epistemic justification

It is a great theory to call out the inconsistencies of others, but it has been criticized for allowing circular reasoning.The problem is that coherentism has been criticized on these very internalist grounds. If we can be justified in believing things based on no other authority than my own beliefs, then it allows the possibility of any outlandish beliefs.

Critics of coherentism

Epistemic justification is the area of philosophy that asks: what counts as enough to justify a belief? Coherentism is the theory that states a belief is justified insofar as it coheres or is consistent with our other beliefs. It is a great theory to call out the inconsistencies of others, but it has been criticized for allowing circular reasoning.

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Your beliefs are much harder to justify than you think

How about being flexible in choosing work hours aa per your productive time? There are people who are active in morning & then there are peeps who get work done at evening hours. Creative people get to choose their hours but not a scenario in corporate lives. So here's the thought-<ul><li>Select your working hours for the day ensuring that your meetings are aligned with the schedule</li><li>Plan your priority work & other tasks so that you don't delay work due to someone's non availability</li><li>Pick your independent tasks in your scheduled slot & unwind your mind from work by indulging in new stuff :)</li></ul>

Flexibility In Work Hours! 

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Apoorva on Aug 31

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.

Love is a verb. Love — the feeling — is a fruit of love, the verb.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.

In seeking happiness for others, you will find it in yourself.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap. If you want happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a life time — help someone else.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

The only way that we can live is if we grow. The only way we can grow is if we change. The only way we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we are exposed is if we throw ourselves into the open.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

Words of wisdom from the world’s wisest thinkers are timeless, though the world continues to change every day. If you’d like me to help you manage your experiments as your consultant and coach, hop…

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21 of the World’s Most Powerful Quotes

<ul><li>Pretend to teach a concept you want to learn about to a student in the sixth grade.</li><li>Identify gaps in your explanation. Go back to the source material to better understand it.</li><li>Organize and simplify.</li><li>Transmit (optional).</li></ul>

The Feynman Learning Technique, Four Steps

The Feynman Learning Technique is a simple way of approaching anything new you want to learn. Why use it? Because learning doesn’t happen from skimming through a book or remembering enough to pass a test. Information is learned when you can explain it and use it in a wide variety of situations. The Feynman Technique gets more mileage from the ideas you encounter instead of rendering anything new into isolated, useless factoids.

The Feynman Learning Technique, Basic Idea

Take out a blank sheet of paper. At the top, write the subject you want to learn. Now write out everything you know about the subject as if you were teaching it to a child or a rubber duck sitting on your desk. You are not teaching to your smart adult friend, but rather a child who has just enough vocabulary and attention span to understand basic concepts and relationships.

Step 1: Pretend to teach it to a child

Areas where you struggle in Step 1 are the points where you have some gaps in your understanding. Identifying gaps in your knowledge—where you forget something important, aren’t able to explain it, or simply have trouble thinking of how variables interact—is a critical part of the learning process. Filling those gaps is when you really make the learning stick.

Step 2: Identify gaps in your explanation

Now you have a set of hand-crafted notes containing a simple explanation. Organize them into a narrative that you can tell from beginning to end. Read it out loud. If the explanation sounds confusing at any point, go back to Step 2. Keep iterating until you have a story that you can tell to anyone who will listen.

Step 3. Organize and simplify

This part is optional, but it’s the logical result of everything you’ve just done. If you really want to be sure of your understanding, run it past someone (ideally someone who knows little of the subject). The ultimate test of your knowledge is your capacity to convey it to another. You can read out directly what you’ve written. You can present the material like a lecture. You can ask your friends for a few minutes of their time while you’re buying them dinner. All that really matters is that you attempt to transmit the material to at least one person who isn’t that familiar with it.

Step 4: Transmit (optional)

The Feynman Technique is not only a wonderful recipe for learning but also a window into a different way of thinking that allows you to tear ideas apart and reconstruct them from the ground up.When you’re having a conversation with someone and they start using words or relationships that you don’t understand, ask them to explain it to you like you’re twelve.Richard Feynman understood the difference between knowing something and knowing the name of something, as well as how, when you truly know something, you can use that knowledge broadly.

The Feynman Learning Technique, Final Thoughts 

If you’re after a way to supercharge your learning and become smarter, the Feynman Technique might just be the best way to learn absolutely anything. Devised by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, it leverages the power of teaching for better learning.

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It’s important to consider dedicating our decisions for the future. One way or another, we’re going to remember this day somehow, and appreciate the things that we have gone through. All the pain, loss, and sacrifices that we are endeavoring to alleviate today will be the collection of prominent memories that we are going to indulge in reminiscing because of one special reason - We made it.

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Rebb Ocampo on Aug 29

With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His book, an anthropology of science, shows us how much of modernity is actually a matter of faith.

 An anthropology of science

What difference does the scientific method make? The difference, Latour explains, is in our careful distinctions between nature and society, between human and thing, distinctions that our benighted ancestors, in their world of alchemy, astrology, and phrenology, never made. But alongside this purifying practice that defines modernity, there exists another seemingly contrary one: the construction of systems that mix politics, science, technology, and nature. The ozone debate is such a hybrid, in Latour’s analysis, as are global warming, deforestation, even the idea of black holes.

What does it mean to be modern?

As these hybrids proliferate, the prospect of keeping nature and culture in their separate mental chambers becomes overwhelming—and rather than try, Latour suggests, we should rethink our distinctions, rethink the definition and constitution of modernity itself. His book offers a new explanation of science that finally recognizes the connections between nature and culture—and so, between our culture and others, past and present.

 The connections between nature and culture

Nothing short of a reworking of our mental landscape, We Have Never Been Modern blurs the boundaries among science, the humanities, and the social sciences to enhance understanding on all sides. A summation of the work of one of the most influential and provocative interpreters of science, it aims at saving what is good and valuable in modernity and replacing the rest with a broader, fairer, and finer sense of possibility.

A sense of possibility

It seems evasive, and even a bit comic, how thinkers in the past century or so, increasingly designate eras with the prefix "post": "post-Christian," "post-Holocaust," "post-industrial," "post-structuralist,"post-modern," "post-humanist," and so on. . . These labels define a period by what it follows rather than what it is, so they do not really describe it at all. According to Latour in We Have Never Been Modern, this is because the fundamental characteristic of modernism has been a strictly linear conception of time, which is divided up according to revolutionary events and ideas.

This means that everything is irrevocably changed. Those ruptures between the past and present, in turn, are projections of a similarly abrupt division of the world between the realms of nature, ruled by inexorable laws, and of civilization, determined by human freedom. The breaks with the past are, however, an illusion, since "we have never been modern," and historical changes are neither progressive nor irreversible.

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THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS, YOU SEE IS NOT FOUND IN SEEKING MORE , BUT IN DEVELOPING THE CAPACITY TO ENJOY LESS. :)

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Richa Tiwari on Aug 25

Upanishad says "Tena tyaktena bhunjita"- Let go and Rejoice

Enjoy This "Moment"

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The Isavasya proclaims the all pervasiveness of the totality of consciousness which is here called Isha, the Lord and urges one to let go the narrow and self-centered identity we are caught up in and rejoice in the flow of the infinite wholeness of Life. The word Kena means who. This Upanishad concerns itself with the question of ones ID. Is there a separate I or is it merely a term used to describe the totality of cognizance. Is there an I beyond the limited, self-centered ID? The Mandukya examines the same idea but in a different way, exploring the states of consciousness all human beings experience namely, the waking state, the dream state and the deep sleep state and postulates that there is a common experiencer in all these states, a witness, not affected by the states. The Upanishads do not concern themselves with mere theories. They raise direct questions regarding the source of thought, the essence of our being and are as relevant today as they were 2000 years ago. The Isavasya proclaims the all-pervasiveness of this totality of consciousness which is here called Isha, the Lord, and urges one to let go the narrow and self-centered identity we are caught up in and rejoice in the flow of the infinite wholeness of Life. The word Kena means Who. This Upanishad concerns itself with the question of ones ID. Is there a separate I or is it merely a term used to describe the totality of cognizance. Is there an I beyond the limited, self-centered ID? The Mandukya examines the same idea but in a different way, exploring the states of consciousness all human beings experience namely, the waking state, the dream state and the deep sleep state, and postulates that there is a common experiencer in all these states, a witness, not affected by the states and which is the totality of consciousness called Turiya represented by the Pranava, OM.

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