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Vocabulary
People
General
Empiricism
Rationalism
100
A collected series of statements to establish a definitive proposition
What is an argument
100
Man who wrote several meditations to try and explain the theory of knowledge
Descartes
100
The field of Epistemology can be broken down into how many main questions?
What is three
100
The view that knowledge is based in sense experience
What is Empiricism
100
The view that knowledge has to be based in reason
What is Rationalism
200
The origin of the word philosophy
What is Greek
200
Man who Descartes studied who believed that the sun was the center of the universe
Galileo
200
Epistemology is also known as the theory of...
What is knowledge
200
All informative truths come through
What is the senses
200
To know fundamental truths about the world we need what
What is reason
300
Term for truth that does not depend on objects in the real world
What is a conceptual truth
300
Group of people who put Galileo on trial for heresy
The church
300
Knowledge is generally a claim to
Know the truth
300
An empiricist would downplay the role of what in knowledge
What is reason and logic
300
Descartes was a rationalist. He used what branch of mathematics as a model for his knowledge?
What is geometry
400
A truth that depends on the state of the world
What is an empirical truth
400
*DAILY DOUBLE* Mr. Baglia believes that today is monday, but he also believes today is not monday. Mr. Baglia is acting what?
What is irrational
400
The position that we can't have any real knowledge
What is skepticism
400
An empiricist would stress what kind of science because it tells us about the world we live in?
What is natural science
400
A rationalist believes in innate ideas. What are innate ideas?
Ideas/knowledge we are born with
500
Philosophical definition of logic
What is rules for avoiding inconsistency
500
Man who found astronomical evidence to support the earth centered theory of the universe
Ptolemy
500
Third key position on how we obtain knowledge. Empiricism and Rationalism are the first two.
What is transcendentalism
500
How would an empiricist feel about innate ideas?
They believe innate ideas do not exist
500
A rationalist believes math and logic are "Real" knowledge. They also believe that science is "...." knowledge
What is "Okay" knowledge