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The view that reason is a significant source or basis for knowledge.
Rationalism
If a thing is not necessarily false, it is…
Possible
Which university in Europe did Dr Sorem study abroad at?
UC Dublin
Reasoning from what is assumed or known to be true to explore what else can be deducted as true from it.
Inference
The branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope of knowledge
Epistemology
Something that depends on sense experience is…
Empirical
Reasons based on or derived from experience.
A posteriori
Reasons independent of experience
A priori
I think I know something, and I have reasons for it. Turns out I did know something, but my reasons did not justify it
The Gettier problem
What is the view that some beliefs can justifiably be held by inference from other beliefs, which themselves are justified directly
Foundationalism
The direct or immediate objects of awareness in sense experience according to those who reject direct realism.
Sense-data
The view that what justifies a belief doesn’t need to be cognitively accessible to the believer.
Externalism
What is the movement that says that something is true if it is in line with all else that we know or believe that it is true?
Coherentism
Assuming that the Sun will rise in the morning is an example of…
The problem of induction
He is considered the “Father of Modern Philosophy”
Rene Descartes
The theory that certain knowledge is possible
Skepticism
Advocates that claims can only be verified by sense experience.
Logical Positivism
The procedure of trying to come up with any kind of doubt about the truth of a statement, and only accepting as truth all that one cannot possibly doubt upon in the slightest
Cartesian method
What is true by the meaning of the words or concepts used to express it, so its denial would be a self-contradiction.
Analyticity
A belief that is justified is easier for you to believe it
Pragmatic theory
The view that external material objects are not directly or immediately perceived, but that our seeming experience of such objects is instead created by sense-data.
Representative Realism
What is the structure of some prepositions in which the object is part of or the whole definition of the subject?
Analyticity
Direct, quasi-perceptual awareness of a person’s own con- scious states of mind.
Introspection
The metaphysical relation in which a proposition or claim that is accurate or correct stands to reality.
Truth
What is the saying of the same thing twice in different words, generally considered to be a fault of style
Tautology