problem knowability of the world is one of the key issues in epistemology.Without solving it impossible either to determine the nature and scope of knowledge, no patterns or trends in human mental activity.In conjunction with her usual question is raised, what is the relationship we have gained information to reality, and what are the criteria for their reliability.Thus, one of the main issues, which for thousands of years to get up in front of the philosophers, is that how it reflects the reality of our knowledge, and whether all our minds to give an adequate picture of our surroundings.
Of course, the problem of the knowability of the world in philosophy did not receive complete and unambiguous decision.For example, the agnosticism strongly (or at least in a certain sense) denies that we can reliably comprehend the essence of the nature and ourselves processes.This does not mean that the philosophical concept of knowledge rejects in principle.For example, such a distinguished thinker like Immanuel Kant, has devoted a lot of works of the problem and, in the end, I came to the conclusion that we can only understand the phenomenon, and nothing more.The essence of things is not available to us.Continuing his ideas, another philosopher, Hume suggested that it is not even about the phenomena, and about our own feelings as anything else we grasp is not given.
problems knowability of the world from the agnostics, can thus be reduced to the statement that we have seen and we have the experience of only a semblance and reality, the essence of our shelters.It should be noted that the final of this thesis so no one denied.In the XVIII century in his "Critique of Pure Reason" Kant posed the question of what we can know and how to do, and since then it has remained almost the same current as at the time.Of course, we can reproach agnostics is that they reduce the amount of all our knowledge to a purely mental activity, which is not only analyzes the environment as it adjusts.The same Kant called our mind something like molds, which the child is played in a sandbox.All that we take immediately in our brain receives the specified category.Therefore, we are more likely themselves construct an object that are trying to understand.
problem knowability of the world, or rather, its incomprehensibility, there is still great interest for scientists.Philosophers pragmatists say that our mental activity is merely utilitarian nature and we "take out" from the fact that it helps to survive.Interesting theory Helmholtz that we simply create characters, encoding and characters, denoting them certain concepts for their own convenience.The famous mathematician Poincare, as the author of the "philosophy of life" Bergson, agreed among themselves that our minds can grasp certain relationships between phenomena, but are unable to understand their nature.
problem knowability of the world worries and modern philosophers.The creator of the famous theory of verification and "falsification" Karl Popper urged scientists to be more cautious and say that we do not see some objective truth, but only plausible.Knowledge does not give us a complete reflection of reality, and can at best serve the needs and utilitarian human need.His equally famous opponent of Hans-Georg Gadamer said that all this only applies to the natural and mathematical sciences, which did not open the truth.The latter is only possible in the "human sciences", which enjoys a completely different understanding of the criteria.
However, even the majority of these scientists nevertheless acknowledges the likelihood of understanding of reality, and the problem of the knowability of the world simply stands before them as the question of the nature of what and how we learn.There is another point of view, which is more familiar to us as divided materialist philosophy.According to her, the source of knowledge is an objective reality that is more or less adequately reflected in the human brain.This process occurs in the logical forms that arise based on the practice.This epistemological theory tries to scientifically substantiate the ability of people to combine their knowledge of the true picture of reality.
