VOCAB DEFINITIONS
QUOTES
CURRENT EVENTS
VOCAB WORDS
CLASSISMS
100
the study of knowledge
What is Epistemology
100
If we accept _________ Theory of Testimony, we cannot be taught by another.
Who is David Hume
100
The name of the most recent Beyonce video viewed in class.
What is Run the World (Girls)
100
A-priori
What is the meaning of knowledge or concepts not derived from sensory experience: knowledge that we have before the facts
100
If you challenge commonly held beliefs you will be made to look like...
What is a fool
200
is about generating or creating ideas, or objects
What is Imagination/ Creative Thinking
200
Pursuit of truth is a duty we owe to God and ourselves
Who is John Locke
200
Name of the congressman who sent "semi nude" photos to women.
What is Rep. Anthony Weiner
200
a posteriori
What is "for from what comes after": derived from sensory experience
200
Brandon Montague is an
What is empericist
300
the branch of philosophy that deals with first principles and seeks to explain the nature of being or reality
What is Metaphysics
300
People would need a long period of reeducation under socialism to condition them away from the selfish orientation produced by capitalism and toward the wider perspective necessary to create communism.
Who is Karl Marx
300
New experimental drug called Vemurafenib addresses this disease?
What is cancer
300
Empiricism
What is the theory that [all scientific] knowledge is based on experience
300
It's pronounced DuBois or DuBois depending on...
What is "who you ask"; "where you're from"
400
trying to understand or describe the world as a sequence of cause and effect between objects that one can observe
What is Positivism.
400
" Seek Truth for Authority, not Authority for Truth."
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton
400
Local news: Name of the Baltimore City Police officer on trail accused of killing Marine officer at Eden's Lounge?
Who is Gahiji A. Tshamba
400
Ideas
What is applied to anything existing/found in the mind as an object of knowledge or thought
400
"Common now you know I love me some..."
What is youtube
500
to explain is to make plain, clear or intelligible, as in "to explain how a machine operates" or "to explain the structure of matter"
What is Explanation in Science
500
Human beings, then, needed to cultivate the mind, body, and heart in a harmonious manner; only then, _____________ believed, could change come to the immoral political and social conditions that violated the spiritual dignity of individuals.
Who is Mohandas Gandhi
500
What is the name of the huge 3 day event that will close portions of downtown Baltimore during Labor Day weekend 2011.
What is Baltimore Grand Prix
500
Rationalists
What is someone whose ideas are based on (pure) reason
500
How do you know that water is wet is based on the concept of a-priori knowledge. But ______ & ________ preferred the opposite form of learning, based on experience?
Who is HUME & LOCKE
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