Concept

Epistemological idealism

Overview

Epistemological idealism is a subjectivist position in epistemology that holds that what one knows about an object exists only in one's mind. It is opposed to epistemological realism.

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Philosophers who discussed Epistemological idealism

• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Brand Blanshard

Related ideas

• Neo-Kantianism
• Immanuel Kant
• Idealism
• Sense data
• Positivism
• Hermann von Helmholtz
• Ludwig Boltzmann
• Ernst Mach
• Brand Blanshard
• Direct and indirect realism

Opposing perspectives

• Subjectivism
• Epistemology

Place in the tradition

Part of History of philosophy in Pakistan.

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