ミュンヒハウゼンのトリレンマ |
「アグリッパのトリレンマは解かれたか」という問題について;
「解かれえない、その結論は正しい、その大前提たる基礎づけ主義(正当化主義)そのものを捨てるべきだ」というのがアルバートの立場。
Wikipediaによる解説
Albert's well known Münchhausen Trilemma is ironically named after Baron Münchhausen, who allegedly pulled himself out of a swamp seizing himself by his shock of hair. This trilemma rounds off the classical problem of justification in the theory of knowledge. All attempts to get a certain justification must fail. The verdict concerns not only deductive justifications as many of his critics believe, but also inductive, causal, transcendental, and all otherwise structured justifications. They all will be in vain:
(1) All justification in pursuit of certain knowledge has also to justify the means of justification and therefore there can be no end.
(2) One can stop at self-evidence or common sense or fundamental principles or anything else, but in doing so the intention to install certain justification is abandoned.
(3) The third horn of the trilemma is the application of a circular argument.
Albert stressed repeatedly that there is no limitation of the Münchhausen Trilemma to deductive conclusions. Therefore certain justification is impossible at all