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Types of Knowledge
Thinkers
General Epistemology
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Even More General Epistemology
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This type of knowledge is acquired through experience by perceiving something through the senses. 

Direct knowledge

100

Believes that only his existence is certain. 

Descartes

100

What does the word "epistemology" mean?

Study and theory of knowledge

100
The belief that reason is, in itself, a source of knowledge

Rationalism

100
What are Plato's Four Stages of Knowing?

Imagining, Believing, Thinking, Knowing

200

This type of knowledge is acquired by using the power of reason and is a result of experience

Indirect Knowledge

200
This thinker believes we are like a blank piece of paper on which our perceptions are sketched as we experience things

Locke

200

The practice of questioning the reliability of our knowledge

Skepticism

200

The term for how direct observation leads to an accumulation of experience that the mind then works to arrive at generalizations. 

Empiricism

200
What does "tabula rasa" mean?

Blank Slate

300

The two terms for the types of knowledge put forth by Bertrand Russell.

Knowledge by Acquaintance

Knowledge by Description

300

This thinker claimed that "to be is to be perceived."

Berkeley

300

What does "Cogito Ergo Sum" mean?

I think, therefore I am

300
This term was put forth by Aquinas to explain the combination of the object itself and the qualities the object needs to exist. 

Species of an object

400

What is the term for knowledge that exists at birth that we don't gain from experience?

Innate knowlegde

400

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

400

What is Plato's term for when a statement is true, you believe it, and you have evidence to support it.

Justified True Belief

400

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

500

What is the term for "Knowledge as ability acquired by seeing something demonstrated?"

Competence Knowledge

500

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