The statement “driving will be dangerous tonight” forms the tip of an iceberg diagram in this essay. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this essay that uses an Otto Neurath (“noy-ratt”) metaphor in its description of a theory it calls a “risky adventure.” This essay compares that theory to the “solid security” of an option promoted by René Descartes (“day-KART”).
ANSWER: “The Raft and the Pyramid” [accept, but do not otherwise reveal, “The Raft and the Pyramid: Coherence versus Foundations in the Theory of Knowledge”]
[10e] In “The Raft and the Pyramid,” Ernest Sosa’s reliabilist approach informed a virtue-based form of this philosophical discipline that studies knowledge.
ANSWER: epistemology [accept virtue epistemology]
[10m] In Sosa’s essay, the pyramid represents foundationalism while the raft represents this theory that justifies one belief based on consistency with a set of beliefs.
ANSWER: coherentism [accept word forms; accept coherence theory of justification]
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