Knowledge
The components of the tripartite theory of knowledge
What is justification, truth and belief?
The view that knowledge is based on sense experience
What is empiricism?
The philosophical position that knowledge can never be certain.
What is scepticism?
The view that knowledge is based on reason
What is rationalism?
What John Locke compared the mind to.
What is a blank sheet of paper?
The sceptical argument that each knowledge claim must be justified, and that justification must be justified, and so on forever.
What is the infinite regress of justification?
What Leibniz compared the mind to.
What is a block of marble?
Knowledge that you have prior to experience
What is a priori knowledge?
A word meaning 'born with'
What is innate?
Knowledge that is gained from experience
What is a posteriori knowledge?