Epistemology Flashcards
Siddhautha
Question everything
Kongfazi
Knowledge is knowing when you do not know something as well as when you do know something
Skepticism
Question reliability of knowledge
Cogito ergo sum
I think therefore I am
Descarte
Conceptions of western epistemology
A) Indian Philosophy
B) Pythagoras’ Influences
Indian Philosophy
6 darchanas (schools)
Samsara: journey of many lives seeking liberation
Pythagoras Influences
Belief in reincarnation
Notion of innate knowledge
Plato
Rationalism
A priori
Aristotle
Empiric
Tabula rasa
A priori
(Comes before)
Knowledge is recollecting
Tabula rasa
Knowledge comes from experience
According to Plato, knowledge only exists if…
- A statement is true
- You believe the statement
- You have valid justification
Descartes
Considered senses deceptive
Using deductive reasoning came to principles like cogito
Cogito
Establishing existence of a being from its awareness
John Locke
Our perceptions are a result of our experiences
Primary characteristics
Secondary characteristics
Primary characteristics
Shape Solidity Extension Figure Motion Number
Secondary characteristics
Colour Temperature Smell Taste Sound
Depend on perception.
Berkely’s idealist response
If no one is around to perceive , does it exist?
Humes analytic/synthetic proposition
- Matters of fact
2. Relations of ideas
Kant’s fusion of rationalism and empiricism
Synthetic a priori concepts
Phenomenal realm
Novmenal realm
Phenomenal realm
The world we know via synthetic a priori concepts
Novmenal realm
Things in themselves beyond perception and conception
Some things we will never be able to explain
Humes bundle theory
Objects do not exist with out preposition (context)
Similar to berkly
Problem with epistemology
Individual concepts of what knowledge is
Serole
We construct knowledge socially
Hossel
Phenomenology
Knowledge comes from history & social
Linguistic idealism
Branch of phenomenology
Suggests language is reality
Nittgenstien
“A proposition is a picture of reality”
“The limits of my language means the limits of my world”
Neminalists
“Real things” are made by both language and culture
Therefore, is socially constructed
Esse est percipi
To be is to be perceived
