MIDTERMS | CHAPTER 2

Question 1

(Theories of Truth) This theory focuses on acquiring truth within a clear and exact formulas that is popular among Mathematics and Scientific communities.

Answer 1

Coherence Theory

Question 2

(Theories of Truth) This theory focuses on truth based upon the good or practical consequences of an idea.

Answer 2

Pragmatic Theory

Question 3

(Theories of Truth) This theory strongly proclaims that the source of knowledge is only sense experience and anything beyond empirical realities are meaningless utterances of terms.

Answer 3

Correspondence Theory

Question 4

This refers to the world we physically live in​.

Answer 4

World of Appearances

Question 5

This is also the world of essences​.

Answer 5

World of Forms

Question 6

In the Allegory of the Cave, what is the symbolic meaning of the cave?

Answer 6

World of Senses (Ignorance)

Question 7

Who is the father of Phenomenology?

Answer 7

Edmund Husserl

Question 8

It believes that the essence of every object can be thought of, investigated, and understood, more than the usual way of understanding it.​

Answer 8

Phenomenology

Question 9

(PARTS OF HUSSERL’S PHENOMENOLOGY) This is the sphere of seeing things as they really are independent of any biases. ​

Answer 9

Eidetic Reduction

Question 10

(PARTS OF HUSSERL’S PHENOMENOLOGY) A process of consciously validating the truth into an experience.​

Answer 10

Transcendental Reduction

Question 11

(PARTS OF HUSSERL’S PHENOMENOLOGY) This is the process of bracketing one’s natural attitude of biases and judgments.

Answer 11

Epoche