Chapter 5 : Epistemology

CONCLUSION

What is truth?    How do we know?   These are two good questions which are part of the long tradition of Philosophy.  They are called perennial issues because they keep returning.

Philosophy has yet to arrive at an answer that has been universally accepted and gone without a challenge through time.  Philosophers keeping working at it and have come to realize a good deal about these apparently simple matters. 

One thing is certain that the post modern ideas on these topics are proving insufficient to the needs of the human community and so the critical thinking and philosophical reflection on these matters will continue.

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