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Skepticism |
Is an approach that questions the possibility of certainty in knowledge, sometimes can be used to sort out true from flase claims |
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Empiricism |
Knowledge by observation. It says that the best way to gain knowledge is to see, hear, touch, or in othereords sense things directly |
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Rationalism |
Knowledge is accquired by reason withour resort to sensory experiance |
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Idealism |
The view that reality is somehow shaped or composed of our ideas |
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Subjective idealism or immaterialism |
The objects we percieve are sensory qualities and these are the only objects that exists |
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Ontology |
Study of what exsists |
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Semantics |
The study of linguistic menaing or the truth of sentences |
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Epistemology |
The study of knowing (what we can know) |
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Scientific Realism |
Supported by no miracles argument. Our theories are very good at explaining what happens in the world because they work, we should think they are true. Nothing happens by chance |
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Utilitarianism |
Holds that what is ethical or moral is whatever maximizes total happines while minimizing total pain |
