Epistemology - Limits of Knowledge Flashcards
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What is local scepticism?
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Scepticism about some specific claim or some branch of supposed knowledge
2
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What is global scepticism?
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Scepticism about all knowledge claims, especially concerning existence and nature of anything outside the mind
3
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What is normal incredulity?
A
Ordinary doubts humans have regularly - we doubt a claim such as ‘is Paris the capital of France?’
4
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What is deduction?
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An a priori method of deriving true propositions via other truth propositions using reason
5
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What is innatism?
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The belief that some of our concepts are not derived from experience, but are somehow part of the structure of the mind
6
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What is the Cogito?
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“I think therefore I am,” Descartes’ first certain knowledge
