Cavendish's Body of Knowledge

Clairhout, Isabelle; Jung, Sandro

doi:10.1080/0013838x.2011.622160

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“…In fact, empirical observations play an important role in Cavendish's own natural philosophy. As Clairhout and Jung point out, ‘The spark that sets off her imagination is very often an everyday phenomenon that interests her inquisitive nature’ (734). Moreover, the variety of nature is a pervasive theme in Cavendish's writing, and recognizing such variety requires empirical observations.…”

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Margaret Cavendish on Perception, Self‐Knowledge, and Probable Opinion

Boyle

2015

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Scholarly interest in Margaret Cavendish's philosophical views has steadily increased over the past decade, but her epistemology has received little attention, and no consensus has emerged; Cavendish has been characterized as a skeptic, as a rationalist, as presenting an alternative epistemology to both rationalism and empiricism, and even as presenting no clear theory of knowledge at all. This paper concludes that Cavendish was only a modest skeptic, for she believed that humans can achieve knowledge through sensitive and rational perception as well as through self-knowledge and can form probable opinions through reasoning.

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Margaret Cavendish on Perception, Self‐Knowledge, and Probable Opinion

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Cavendish's Body of Knowledge

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Margaret Cavendish on Perception, Self‐Knowledge, and Probable Opinion

Margaret Cavendish on Perception, Self‐Knowledge, and Probable Opinion

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