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Epistemology Flashcards

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what is epistemology

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the study of knowledge and understanding

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what is Walking Life about?

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a man who is in a constant dream-like state
-touches on the following topics: reality, free will, the relationship of the subject with others, the meaning of life, existentialism, situationist politics, post-humanity

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Rationalist

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-are detached and impartial to the situation to be more objective (decisions not influences by personal feelings for innate ideas

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Empiricist

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Opposite of rationalist

Belief in perception, using the senses for innate ideas

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Innate Ideas

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Concepts used by a majority of society

Eg space, time, mathematics

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New evolution

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Branches off of two concepts
Digital=artificial intelligence
Analog=signals+information represented by continuous variables-results from molecular biology and cloning

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What is a philosophical position?

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Thinking that a statement is either true of false

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Abstraction

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The act of dealing with ideas rather than events

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Reality

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Is the way things actually are

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