Exam Epistemology

Question 1

samsara

Answer 1

• belief shared by many darshanas
• East Indian Philosophy
• which describes journey towards liberation
• leads to asceticism + self discipline
• by 4th BCE influence had spread to Syria, Egypt, Macedonia—where Greeks were likely introduced to it

Question 2

asceticism

Answer 2

lack of possessions

Question 3

Empiricism

Answer 3

• plato
• everything we come to know is through our own experiences

Question 4

Rationalism

Answer 4

• plato
• everything we know is outside of our perception
• rationalists maintain the idea that we enter the world with innate knowledge

Question 5

a priori vs. a posteriori knowledge

Answer 5

• priori knowledge refers to knowledge that is justified independently of experience
• knowledge obtained a posteriori (knowledge after)

Question 6

Plato’s Justified True Belief

Answer 6

• used to be that if something was true and you believed it you know it
• Plato introduced the idea of evidence/justification

Question 7

tabula rasa

Answer 7

blank slate idea

Question 8

Locke’s primary qualities

Answer 8

objective, and unchangeable (shape, solidity, extension, motion, number)

Question 9

Locke’s secondary qualities

Answer 9

a matter of subjectivity (quantitative factors, “the room is hot,” colour, sound, touch, taste, smell)