Definitions Flashcards
A posteriori
After an experience, you use your sense to determine it.
A priori
Before an experience, using your reason to determine something
Empirical
Using the sense to make sense of reality
Rationalism
using your reason over impulse
telos
purpose
teleology
study of the ends or purposes that things serve
coherent
makes sense
incoherent
does not make sense
particulars
earthly/ material things
forms
true reality that lies beyond or behind the particulars
concepts
justice
beauty
courage
goodness
vienna circle
the group of philosophers that led to logical positivism
logical positivism
a movement that wanted philosophy to analyse language
verification principle
statements are only philosophically meaningful if they are verified empirically or are tautologies
tautology
a logic that is true by definition