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29 Cards in this Set
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A priori |
Knowledge from world before experience |
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A posteriori |
Knowledge from experience, after experience |
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Tabula rasa |
Born a blank slate |
Knowledge, birth |
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Objective/universal knowledge |
Facts we know from others |
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Noumenal relm |
The one we experience |
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Phenomenal relm |
The relm we don't experience |
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Innate ideas |
Have knowledge at birth |
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Primary qualities |
Subjective |
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Secondary qualities |
Objective |
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Simple ideas |
Sensory impressions to abstract concepts, building blocks |
"Whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks" |
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Complex ideas |
Manufactured in the human mind |
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Ideas |
Locke, human thought; Hume, perception of the mind that involves thinking; Berkley, ideas of objects caused by our own minds |
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Plato's World of the Forms |
Human thought represents most accurate representation if reality |
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Universal |
Spread everywhere |
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Particular |
Based in individual or group |
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Synthetic |
Mixture of both a priori and a posteriori |
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Categories of Understanding |
Transendental knowledge, imagination |
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Principle of Induction |
Reasoning leads to knowledge |
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Uniformity of Nature |
One cause will always have the same effect |
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Relations of Ideas |
A priori and a posterior are connected |
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Matters of Fact |
Cannot prove objects existance unless object can be experienced |
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Universal Belief Falsefiers |
Demon argument and Brain in Vat Argument |
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Skepticism |
Knowledge is not possible, Hume |
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Rationalism |
Knowledge is possible through reason which represents reality as it is, Decarte and Plato |
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Empiricism |
Knowledge is possible through experience which represents reality as it is, Locke and Berkley |
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Constructivism |
Knowledge is possible through reason, but it does not show reality as it truly is |
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Decarte and God |
If God exists he cannit be a deciever or allow us to be decieved |
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Decarte against cause and effect |
Total wace of doubt, knowledge not possible |
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Kant and Constructs of Mind |
World is as we construct it in your minds |
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