<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Fernando Gil’s last philosophy, as exemplified in <italic>The Conviction,</italic> deals with the distinction between belief and conviction, as well as with the common features they both share. Such distinction relates to other distinctions: and ideology and truth, etc. Fernando Gil’s main aim is the explanation of intricate connections between the epistemic and the epistemological that is the relations the subject entertains with his beliefs and the relations those entertain with reality. In other words: his enquiry deals with the place of the subject in knowledge.</p></abstract>

Fernando Gil’s last philosophy, as exemplified in The Conviction, deals with the distinction between belief and conviction, as well as with the common features they both share. Such distinction relates to other distinctions: and ideology and truth, etc. Fernando Gil’s main aim is the explanation of intricate connections between the epistemic and the epistemological that is the relations the subject entertains with his beliefs and the relations those entertain with reality. In other words: his enquiry deals with the place of the subject in knowledge.

O sujeito no conhecimento. Sobre Fernando Gil

Phainomenon

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Fernando Gil’s last philosophy, as exemplified in The Conviction, deals with the distinction between belief and conviction, as well as with the common features...

O sujeito no conhecimento. Sobre Fernando Gil

Published Online: Oct 19, 2021

Page range: 275 - 301

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/phainomenon-2011-0013

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