Mind, Knowledge and Ethics

Question 1

Ipso Facto

Answer 1

By the fact itself

Question 2

Ceteris Parubus

Answer 2

With all other factors remaining the same (“other things equal”)

Question 3

Sense Data

Answer 3

Mental entities given to the senses when perceiving

Question 4

Disjunctivism

Answer 4

Perception is causally mediated and is never direct

Question 5

Presentism

Answer 5

Only the present moment exists

Question 6

Eternalism

Answer 6

Past, present and future all exist always

Question 7

Idealism

Answer 7

Only the mind exists

Question 8

Fallibalism

Answer 8

Knowledge is NEVER certain

Question 9

Contextualism

Answer 9

Whether something is knowledge depends on the context

Question 10

Safety Theory of Knowledge

Answer 10

True beliefs are knowledge if they can’t easily have been false

Question 11

Contrapositives

Answer 11

“If not q, then not p” is the contrapositive of “if q, then p”

Question 12

IFF

Answer 12

If and only if

Question 13

Counterfactual vs Indicative

Answer 13

Indicative describes what actually happened, counterfactual discusses hypothetical alternatives

Question 14

A priori

Answer 14

Knowable without experience

Question 15

A posteriori

Answer 15

Derived from experience

Question 16

Modus Tollens

Answer 16

If p, then q. If not q, then not p.