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Rational conjecture based on systematic considerations is the key method of philosophical enquiry, affording our best hope for obtaining promising answers to the questions that confront us.
Rational inquiry is a systematic process of seeking knowledge and understanding through reason, critical thinking, and logical analysis. It emphasizes the importance of questioning assumptions, evaluating evidence, and arriving at conclusions based on rational thought rather than tradition or dogma.
Rational inquiry is a systematic approach to seeking knowledge that emphasizes the use of reason, logic, and critical thinking rather than relying solely on tradition, authority, or dogma. This method encourages questioning assumptions, examining evidence, and forming conclusions based on rational thought processes.
PHILOSOPHY AS A VENTURE IN RATIONAL ENQUIRY. The defi nitive mission of philosophy is to provide a basis for understanding the world and our place within it as intelligent agents – with ‘the world’ understood comprehensively to encompass the realms of nature, culture, and artifi ce.
We saw that a normative theory of rational inquiry is needed to unpack the contents of these claims as well as to assess their correctness and implications. In Part 2, I construct a theory of rational inquiry. That theory will be defended and applied in Parts 3–4, respectively.
Truth is what an ideally rational inquirer would in the long run come to believe, say some pragmatists. Truth is the ideal outcome of rational inquiry.
Motivated by this framework-relative conception of rational inquiry, Carnap' s philosophical project was to clarify our understanding of the cri- teria relative to which inquiry is possible by offering rigorous descriptions
