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Epistemology Flashcards

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Siddhautha

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Question everything

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Kongfazi

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Knowledge is knowing when you do not know something as well as when you do know something

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Skepticism

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Question reliability of knowledge

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Cogito ergo sum

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I think therefore I am

Descarte

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Conceptions of western epistemology

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A) Indian Philosophy

B) Pythagoras’ Influences

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Indian Philosophy

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6 darchanas (schools)

Samsara: journey of many lives seeking liberation

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Pythagoras Influences

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Belief in reincarnation

Notion of innate knowledge

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Plato

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Rationalism

A priori

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Aristotle

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Empiric

Tabula rasa

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A priori

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(Comes before)

Knowledge is recollecting

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Tabula rasa

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Knowledge comes from experience

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According to Plato, knowledge only exists if…

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  1. A statement is true
  2. You believe the statement
  3. You have valid justification
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Descartes

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Considered senses deceptive

Using deductive reasoning came to principles like cogito

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Cogito

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Establishing existence of a being from its awareness

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John Locke

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Our perceptions are a result of our experiences

Primary characteristics
Secondary characteristics

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Primary characteristics

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Shape
Solidity
Extension 
Figure
Motion
Number
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Secondary characteristics

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Colour
Temperature
Smell
Taste
Sound

Depend on perception.

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Berkely’s idealist response

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If no one is around to perceive , does it exist?

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Humes analytic/synthetic proposition

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  1. Matters of fact

2. Relations of ideas

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Kant’s fusion of rationalism and empiricism

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Synthetic a priori concepts

Phenomenal realm
Novmenal realm

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Phenomenal realm

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The world we know via synthetic a priori concepts

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Novmenal realm

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Things in themselves beyond perception and conception

Some things we will never be able to explain

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Humes bundle theory

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Objects do not exist with out preposition (context)

Similar to berkly

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Problem with epistemology

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Individual concepts of what knowledge is

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Serole

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We construct knowledge socially

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Hossel

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Phenomenology

Knowledge comes from history & social

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Linguistic idealism

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Branch of phenomenology

Suggests language is reality

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Nittgenstien

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“A proposition is a picture of reality”

“The limits of my language means the limits of my world”

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Neminalists

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“Real things” are made by both language and culture

Therefore, is socially constructed

30
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Esse est percipi

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To be is to be perceived

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