EvolutionaryEpistemology
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The philosophical position that our perceptions and the beliefs formed by them are largely true because we'd be dead if they weren't.
As KarlPopper says :
The evolution of language and, with it, of the WorldThree of the products of the human mind allows a further step: the human step. It allows us to dissociate ourselves from our own hypotheses, and to look upon them critically. While an uncritical animal may be eliminated together with its dogmatically held hypotheses, we may formulate our hypotheses, and criticize them. Let our conjectures, our theories, die in our stead! We may still learn to kill our theories instead of killing each other. If natural selection has favored the evolution of mind for the reason indicated, then it is perhaps more than a utopian dream that one day may see the victory of the attitude (it is the rational or the scientific attitude) of eliminating our theories, our opinions, by rational criticism, instead of eliminating each other.
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However ... the usual scepticisms apply.
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