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Influential Philosophical Themes Flashcards

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Dualism

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The mind and the body are fundamentally different things

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Materialism

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The mind is what the brain does

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Realism

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Perceptions of the world are like photographs

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Idealism

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Perceptions of the world are like paintings (brain’s interpretation of sensory information)

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Empiricism

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View that all knowledge is acquired through experience (Nurture)

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Nativism

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View that some knowledge is innate rather than acquired (Nature)

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