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Yin/Yang Epistemology

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Traditional Chinese thought pays a great deal of attention to issues in ethics, but has very little to say about epistemology—at least by comparison with the enormous focus on issues about knowledge and justification one finds in Western philosophy during the modern period.

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    See Francis Bacon, Novum Organum I, 26; and Popper (1989, p. 46). On the distinction between context of discovery and context of justification, see, e.g., Reichenbach (1938).

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  • Popper, Karl. 1989. Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge, 46. London: Routledge.

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  • Reichenbach, Hans. 1938. Experience and Prediction: An Analysis of the Foundations and Structure of Knowledge. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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Slote, M. (2021). Yin/Yang Epistemology. In: Zhang, B., Tong, S., Cao, J., Fan, C. (eds) Facts and Evidence. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9639-1_3

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