In his book " Scepticism and Animal Faith " he asserts that knowledge is not the result of reasoning.
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George Santayana, in his " Scepticism and Animal Faith, " attempted to show that the reality of change cannot be proven.
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She frequently sacked vets telling one " I do not pay you to tell me that there is nothing wrong with my animal " and trying animal faith healers at times.
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"Here says Santayana, is the tragedy of the Puritan : the spirit that seeks to govern and is not content to understand, that rebels against nature and animal faith and demands some absolute sanction for love.
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Santayana builds on his " Skepticism and Animal Faith ", which he described as a sort of precursor to " a new system of philosophy ", that would be developed fully in the present work.
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He posits the necessity of the eponymous " Animal Faith ", which is belief in that which our senses tell us; " Philosophy begins " in medias res " ", he assures us at the beginning of his treatise.
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Staying true to this materialism, Santayana rejects the existence of a transcendent soul, instead positing that " the soul is only a fine quick organization within the material animal . " He also rejects immortality in the common sense of the word, saying in " Skepticism and Animal Faith " : " I believe there is nothing immortal . . . No doubt the spirit and energy of the world is what is acting in us, as the sea is what rises in every little wave; but it passes through us; and, cry out as we may, it will move on.
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He asserts that " Nature, by an absolute and uncontroulable necessity has determin'd us to judge as well as to breathe and feel . " Agreeing, philosopher John D . Kenyon writes : " Reason might manage to raise a doubt about the truth of a conclusion of natural inductive inference just for a moment . . . but the sheer agreeableness of animal faith will protect us from excessive caution and sterile suspension of belief . " Commentators such as Charles Sanders Peirce have demurred from Hume's solution, while, some, such as Kant and Karl Popper, saw that Hume's analysis " had posed a most fundamental challenge to all human knowledge claims ."
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