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Bootstrapping and The Münchhausen Trilemma The Münchhausen Trilemma is a term used in epistemology to stress the impossibility to prove any truth even in the fields of logic and mathematics. The name Münchhausen Trilemma was coined by the German philosopher Hans Albert in 1968 in reference to a Trilemma of “dogmatism vs. infinite regress vs. psychologism” used by Karl Popper; it is a reference to the problem of “bootstrapping”, after the story of Baron Münchhausen, pulling himself and the horse on which he was sitting out of a mire by his own hair. (Wikipedia)
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Bootstrapping and The Münchhausen Trilemma The Münchhausen Trilemma is a term used in epistemology to stress the impossibility to prove any truth even in the fields of logic and mathematics. The name Münchhausen Trilemma was coined by the German philosopher Hans Albert in 1968 in reference to a Trilemma of “dogmatism vs. infinite regress vs. psychologism” used by Karl Popper; it is a reference to the problem of “bootstrapping”, after the story of Baron Münchhausen, pulling himself and the horse on which he was sitting out of a mire by his own hair. (Wikipedia)
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Bootstrapping and The Münchhausen Trilemma
The Münchhausen Trilemma is a term used in epistemology to stress the impossibility to prove any truth even in the fields of logic and mathematics. The name Münchhausen Trilemma was coined by the German philosopher Hans Albert in 1968 in reference to a Trilemma of “dogmatism vs. infinite regress vs. psychologism” used by Karl Popper; it is a reference to the problem of “bootstrapping”, after the story of Baron Münchhausen, pulling himself and the horse on which he was sitting out of a mire by his own hair. (Wikipedia)