Types of Knowledge
This type of knowledge is acquired through experience by perceiving something through the senses.
Direct knowledge
Believes that only his existence is certain.
Descartes
What does the word "epistemology" mean?
Study and theory of knowledge
Rationalism
Imagining, Believing, Thinking, Knowing
This type of knowledge is acquired by using the power of reason and is a result of experience
Indirect Knowledge
Locke
The practice of questioning the reliability of our knowledge
Skepticism
The term for how direct observation leads to an accumulation of experience that the mind then works to arrive at generalizations.
Empiricism
Blank Slate
The two terms for the types of knowledge put forth by Bertrand Russell.
Knowledge by Acquaintance
Knowledge by Description
This thinker claimed that "to be is to be perceived."
Berkeley
What does "Cogito Ergo Sum" mean?
I think, therefore I am
Species of an object
What is the term for knowledge that exists at birth that we don't gain from experience?
Innate knowlegde
This thinker challenges the notion of causality and things we are just trying to make sense of the world but can't prove it exists.
Hume
What is Plato's term for when a statement is true, you believe it, and you have evidence to support it.
Justified True Belief
The terms for the idea of matter and how it might be composed and the stuff that actually makes up and object.
Common matter and individuated matter
What is the term for "Knowledge as ability acquired by seeing something demonstrated?"
Competence Knowledge
Which one is "Know that" and which one is "Know How?
1. I have the ability to swim and can try to instruct others how to swim.
2. I have heard about Michael Phelps and what a great swimmer he is, but I don't really swim that well myself.
1= Know How
2=Know That