Fact vs. hypothesis

pp. 23-36

in: Jan Srzednicki, To know or not to know, Berlin, Springer, 1995

Abstract

We have been concerned with the traditional search for the simples of knowledge, and the requirements imposed by the rather obvious fact that all complex knowledge must be based on something simpler than itself, and if the underlying item is not simple in itself we must seek further till we come to something really simple that can stand entirely on its own feet.