Vocab
A collected series of statements to establish a definitive proposition
An argument
Man who wrote several meditations to try and explain the theory of knowledge
Rene Decartes
Number of fields Epistemology can be broken down into
3
The view that knowledge is based in sense experience
Empiricism
A proposition that is supported by a set of premises, usually found at the end of an argument
A conclusion
The origin of the word philosophy
Greek
Man who Decartes studied, believed sun was the center of universe
Galileo
Epistemology is also known as the theory of...
Knowledge
In empiricism, all informative truths to come through
the senses
A declarative sentence that has truth value
a Proposition
Term for truth that does not depend on objects in the real world
Conceptual truth
The group that Galilo, Brahe, Copernicus, and Keppler proved wrong
the Church
Knowledge is generally a claim to...
know the truth
Rationalists believe in innate knowledge. Explain what innate knowledge is
Knowledge we are born with
A proposition serving as a reason for conclusion
Premise
A truth that depends on The state of the world
Empirical truth
If Mr. Baglia believes that today is Thursday, and he also believes that today is not Thursday he is acting....
irrational
Position, or type of person, that claim that we can't have any real knowledge
Skeptic, or Skepticism
Empiricists downplay the role of what in coming up with knowledge
reason and logic
What are examples of sentences that are not propositions
Questions, Commands, Exclamations
Rules for avoiding inconsistency
Logic
Astronomer who used his senses to claim that the earth was the center of the universe
Ptolemy
The third position on how we obtain knowledge, empiricism and rationalism are the first two
Transcendentalism
Decartes was a rationalist or empiricist
rationalist
Keys that help establish what part of an argument someone is in
Premise or Conclusion indicators