Argument
Münchhausen trilemma
Overview
thought experiment about the impossibility of proving any truth: in response to repeated "but why?"s, only the circular argument, infinite regress, or axiomatic argument are possible
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Philosophers who discussed Münchhausen trilemma
Related ideas
- Foundationalism
- Principle of sufficient reason
- Ad infinitum
- Karl Popper
- Sextus Empiricus
- Jakob Friedrich Fries
- Mathematics
- Psychologism
- Coherentism
- Proof (truth)
- Truth
- Infinite regress
- Circular reasoning
- Fallibilism
- Dogma
- Logic
- Relativism
- Thought experiment
- Diogenes Laertius
- Proposition
- Epistemology
- Axiom
- Certainty
- Agrippa the Skeptic
Place in the tradition
Part of Absurdism.