Knowledge empiricism

Question 1

What is an analytic proposition?

Answer 1

True or false

In meaning of words

Question 2

What is a synthetic proposition?

Answer 2

Not analytic

true or false by how the world is

Question 3

What is priori knowledge?

Answer 3

Knowledge of propositions

Not established on a basis of sense experience

Question 4

What is posteriori knowledge?

Answer 4

Gained and justified through sense-experience

Question 5

What is Empiricism?

Answer 5

Synthetic propositions are a known posteriori

priori knowledge is of analytic propositions

Question 6

What is rationalism?

Answer 6

Knowledge is innate and discovered by rational intuition and deduction

Question 7

What are relations of ideas?

Answer 7

Established by pure thought and are intuitively certain

Matte

Question 8

What are matters of fact?

Answer 8

known through experience and induction

Question 9

Rationalism object to Empiricism?

Answer 9

Sense experience can justify many beliefs

Leads to scepticism

Question 10

What is rational intuition?

Answer 10

discovering the truth of a claim just by thinking about it

Question 11

Descartes argument for himself

Answer 11

He is a thinking thing
I think (cogito) is Descartes first item of knowledge

Question 12

Descartes argument fro physical objects

Answer 12

Cl;ear and distinct ideas, clear are present and accessible to the attentive mind and distinct sharply separate from other ideas.

Question 13

Descartes argument for God

Answer 13

God isn’t a deceiver, since he is perfect
He would correct any mistakes we have
God wouldn’t let a demon perceive us
We can tell the difference between dreaming and being awake

Question 14

What are sensory experience?

Answer 14

Involuntary
Not caused by minds or God
Caused by physical objects

Question 15

What do empiricist argue about maths?

Answer 15

Its analytic

But geometry it analytic and a posteriori synthetic claim

Question 16

What do empiricts think about Descartes argument?

Answer 16

It isn’t a proiri claim

Question 17

What is the Cartesian Circle?

Answer 17

Descartes relies on clear and distinct ideas to prove God exists, but Descartes relies on God to know clear and distinct ideas are true.

Question 18

Descartes reaction to the Cartesian circle?

Answer 18

Rejects it

Clear and distinct ideas are necessarily true

Question 19

What is knowledge innatism?

Answer 19

Have some knowledge, not derived from experience

Question 20

What did Plate think about innatism?

Answer 20

Learning is from remembering

Question 21

Examples of Plato’s point of views

Answer 21

Boy discovering a geometrical truth
Just by being asked question
Not taught anything
Triggered what knowledge he had

Question 22

What did Locke think of innate knowledge?

Answer 22

Rejects 5 definitions of it

Question 23

Why does Leibniz disagree with Locke?

Answer 23

Memory is no reason to think our unconscious knowledge is acquired from experience

Question 24

What does Leibniz believe about experience?

Answer 24

Needed to trigger innate knowledge towards developing and using knowledge of necessary truths
Can’t give is knowledge of necessary truths, this knowledge is innate.

Question 25

What do Innatists believe about innate knowledge?

Answer 25

Triggered by experience

Can’t be gained from experience

Question 26

How do Empiricist object to innate knowledge?

Answer 26

Requires existence of non-natural things

Question 27

What do Empiricist argue about purported examples of innate knowledge?

Answer 27

Not knowledge at all

Or just knowledge of analytic propositions