Ch 1

Question 1

Knowledge by acquaintance.

Answer 1

knowledge we have when we know what it’s like to be in pain. By experience

Question 2

Performative knowledge

Answer 2

knowledge of how to perform a certain activity. knowledge we know like snow is white or riding a bike

Question 3

Philosophical skepticism

Answer 3

the doctrine that we have no knowledge of some realms, such as the external world.

Question 4

Rationalism

Answer 4

Reason is the source of knowledge

Question 5

Empiricism

Answer 5

Experience is the only source of knowledge

Question 6

A priori

Answer 6

knowledge obtained prior to or independent of sense experience (ex x is red > x has a color

Question 7

Posterior knowledge

Answer 7

knowledge based on sense experience

Question 8

Analytical proposition

Answer 8

A proposition that is a logical truth or can be turned logical by synonyms.

Question 9

Synthetic proposition

Answer 9

true by experience predicate concept is not contained in the subject.

Question 10

Correspondence theory of truth

Answer 10

a belief is true if it corresponds with the existing world

Question 11

The coherence theory of truth

Answer 11

a belief is true if it is within a body of other statements that we take to be true

Question 12

Pragmatic theory of truth

Answer 12

a proposition is made true by its practical consequences

Question 13

Cognitive subjectivism

Answer 13

A proposition is made true by one’s believing it to be true

Question 14

Cognitive cultural relativism

Answer 14

A proposition is made true by a society’s believing it to be true

Question 15

Minimal correspondence theory

Answer 15

things are as it says they are.