ideas we are born with that structure our experience of reality.
What are innate ideas?
100
The ideals behind reality (that are more real than physical existence)
What are 'the Forms'
100
That which comes before experience
What is a priori
100
The idea that the mind is a blank slate
What is Tabula Rasa?
100
A proposition whose negation leads to a self-contradiction, that is a priori, that is true by definition and necessarily so.
What are analytic propositions
200
The Latin phrase which guided Descartes' philosophical methodology
What is de omnibus dubitandum
200
The idea that the world consists of visible (physical) and invisible (mental) realities, but the later is more real than the former.
What is dualism
200
that which comes after experience
What is a posteriori
200
the idea that we can only know with certainty that which is presented to our senses
What is empiricism
200
a proposition whose negation does not lead to a self-contradiction, that is a posteriori, that is not true by definition or necessarily ture
What are synthetic propositions
300
The Latin phrase which expressed Descartes first and most important apodictic certainty
What is cogito ergo sum
300
The Super form that allows all other forms to be comprehended
What is the Good
300
a universal rule regarding human action
What is the categorical imperative
300
The credo which proclaims: Do not multiply entities beyond necessity
What is Ockham's razor?
300
All relations of ideas, or analytic propositions, are this (circular reasoning, redundant and repititive)
What is tautalogical?
400
The name of the argument Descartes employs to prove the existence of God
What is the Ontological argument?
400
The study of being in itself
What is ontology (or metaphysics)
400
the view that we have 'goggles' on all the time while experiencing reality (and that we can never take those goggles off)
What is transcendental idealism?
400
A quality of an external object which cannot be broken down into smaller parts and actually inheres in that object (such as extension, size, shape and location)
What are primary qualities?
400
The superfluous category of ideas that is neither analytic or synthetic (which a surprising number of ideas belong to)
What is nonsense?
500
the four innnate ideas that Descartes believes we are all born with
What are self, identity, substance, God
500
His theory of knowledge, or epistemology, which says that all knowing is merely *remembering*
What is Anamnesis
500
Kant's definition of the human person
What is a transcendental unity of apperception
500
A characteristic that we attribute to external objects that only exist in our own minds, but are yet caused by those objects themselves (such as colors, sounds and tastes)
What are secondary qualities (or representative realism)
500
The idea that descripitive language and prescriptive language should not be allowed to mix in moral discourse