Epistemology

Question 1

The Greek root of the word epistemology

Answer 1

The study of knowledge

Question 2

Skeptism

Answer 2

Questioning the reliability of knowledge

Question 3

Buddha

Answer 3

Question everything

Question 4

Confucius

Answer 4

Knowledge is realizing you do not know something when you do not know it and that you do when you do know it

Question 5

The notion of samsara

Answer 5

The journey of being through many live and forms seeking liberation

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Asceticism

Answer 6

Life of austerity and self discipline

Question 7

What does samsara lead to

Answer 7

Asceticism

Question 8

Rationalism

Answer 8

Plato
No sharp division between belief and knowledge
Implications of the allegory point to that perception comes from an individuals experiences
Anemnesis
Suggests we are born w innate knowledge (a priori)
We acquire additional knowledge via reason

Question 9

Empiricism

Answer 9

Aristotle
Did not believe in the desperation between essense/ form of something + the thing itself (form part of object)
Sense perception+experience+ experimentation= empiricism
A posteriori - knowledge comes from experience
Tabula rasa- everyone’s born w a blank slate

Question 10

Plato’s justifies true belief (JTB)

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Used to be ‘belief’ was enough to constitute change
Introduced the notion of evidence or justification
true statement = (JTF)
+ belief + justification

Question 11

Tabula rasa

Answer 11

No such thing as innate knowledge our perceptions are drawn on our minds as a result of our experiences
Born w blank slate learn through experiences

Question 12

Lockes primary qualities

Answer 12

Shape 
Solidity 
Extension- takes up space 
Motion 
Number

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Lockes secondary qualities

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Colour 
Temperature 
Smell 
Taste 
Sound

Question 14

Barkley’s idealism

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Believes even lockes primary qualities are subjective

Question 15

Esse est percipi

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To be perceived or exist

Question 16

Contingent truth

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Truth is confident or occurs on circumstances
Ice cream melts at room temp
Not true if room is cold

Question 17

Kant

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Bridges the gap btwn empiricism and rationalism
Against tabula rasa
Believes no such thing as a priori knowledge
Believes in prisri concept
( time space causality motion solidity)

Question 18

A priori

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Born w innate knowledge

Question 19

A posteriori

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Learns knowledge thru experience

Question 20

Kant - phenomenal realm

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All things we understand bc we experience

Question 21

Kant - Noumenal realm

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We have an idea but we can’t fully grasp bc it’s beyond our beliefs

Question 22

Humes bundle theory ffffff

Answer 22

Suggests objects do not exist outside of perception

Question 23

Phenomenology

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Husserl: we understand and construct knowledge in a cultural historical framework
Can never know absolutely

Question 24

Linguistic idealism

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Suggests language is reality

Question 25

Nominalists

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Argue that real things are mediated by our language

Question 26

Rationalism DESCARTES

Answer 26

considered like Plato the senses to be deceptive

Relied on deductive reasoning to move from absolute doubt to first principles