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Which one is not an Empiricist?

Plato

According to the empiricist worldview, ________ is (are) the primary source of all knowledge.

senses

The branch of philosophy known as the study of human knowledge is ______.

epistemology

Which of the following is a central claim of George Berkeley?


“To be is to be perceived”

Which is not true of Empiricism?

Truth is true regardless of the data.

What is not true of “A Priori Knowledge”


Objective color of red

Rationalism states that there is no universal, objective knowledge

False

Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy defined as the study of human knowledge.

False

The Constitution and Declaration of Independence express an Empirical worldview.

False

Rationalism thinks that reason represents reality as it truly is.

True

Empiricism favors A Priori knowledge.

False

Socrates was a great Empiricist.

False

No book except the Bible was more influential in 1700s than John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

True

Empiricists state that rational arguments are the best source of truth.

False

Philosophers are concerned with the question of whether we can know anything at all.

True

David Hume says that all we know are psychological habits of our experience about the interactions of the world, not true facts about the world.

True

According to empiricism, scientific theory can never be proven to be true with absolute certainty.

True

Empiricism claims that “There are no logically necessary truths about the world.” But this assertion is a logical contradiction.

True

According to empiricism, scientific theory can never be proven to be true with absolute certainty

True

According to rationalism, basic ethical principles are thought to be “A Priori.”

True