"That's Just Like Your Opinion, Man"
This is defined as "justified true belief."
What is knowledge?
This way of knowing involves using your five senses to gather information.
What is sense perception?
Descartes used this statement to summarize what he could know for certain and why.
What is “I think, therefore I am”?
This reasoning method generalizes from observations to form hypotheses.
What is induction?
This thought experiment uses a cave to explore perception and enlightenment.
What is the Allegory of the Cave?
This mental state accepts a proposition as true, but doesn’t require objective verification.
What is belief?
This way of knowing is often questioned due to the unreliability of optical illusions.
What is sense perception?
One of Descartes' scenarios that implies we are ultimately unable to distinguish reality from unreality.
What is the dream argument?
This reasoning method starts with general principles to reach specific conclusions.
What is deduction?
This experiment shows how sign language can raise questions about animal cognition.
What is the Koko the Gorilla experiment?
This is a subjective viewpoint held with low certainty, often about preferences or politics.
What is opinion?
This way of knowing is based on internal feelings and is often contrasted with reason.
What is emotion?
This hypothetical scenario in which Descartes demonstrates how we could potentially be intentionally deceived about everything, even the basic rules of mathematics.
What is the evil genius?
This reasoning method selects the most likely explanation from competing hypotheses through elimination of less likely options.
What is abduction?
This story involves a magic that makes the wearer invisible, raising questions about the nature of ethical choices.
What is the Ring of Gyges?
This philosophical problem challenges the idea that justified true belief is sufficient for knowledge.
What is the Gettier problem?
This way of knowing is often based on tradition or personal conviction and may lack empirical justification.
What is faith?
Descartes uses this concept to rebuild knowledge, arguing it explains why we in fact cannot be systematically deceived by our senses and therefore can build knowledge of the world.
What is the existence of God?
This philosopher argued that scientific theories must be falsifiable.
Who is Karl Popper?
This fictional culture satirizes Western norms and assumptions through anthropological description.
Who are the Nacirema people?