(P) Lesson 2: Simple Apprehension Flashcards
Complete the quote by Aristotle
____ is a rational animal.
Man
The highest form of entity in the universe
Man
Complete the sentence
____ are the most complex
Human thoughts
T or F: Knowledge is not innate.
F
Knowledge is present within us and we just resurface them when needed.
Who proposed the concept of doubt?
Descartes
What did Descartes say you cannot doubt?
Your own manner of doubting
You can doubt everything else but this.
Defined as “knowing something without experience”
A priori knowledge
Who were the three philosophers did not agree with Descartes?
Locke, Hume, and Berkley
They are empiricists (experience-based).
What did Locke specifically believe with regards to the mind?
It starts off empty
Defined as “after experience”
A posteriori knowledge
Priori knowledge + posteriori knowledge = ?
Synthetic a priori knowledge
Acquiring new knowledge alongside already acquired knowledge
Synthetic a priori knowledge
Idea creation or the intellectual evolution of a concept
Ideogenesis
How we absorb information and try to label them
Ideogenesis
What are three steps in apprehension?
Process (abstraction)
Product (idea)
Manifestation (term)
T or F: Our ability to acquire information requires our mind to work passively to actively
True
T or F: Passive thinking yields ideas
F
You must be active.
The steps of simple apprehension
Sensation
Imagination
Abstraction
Verbalization
The Process of Simple Apprehension
Acquisition of “sense data” with the help of senses
Sensation
The Process of Simple Apprehension
T or F: Sense data when left alone does not make sense
T
The Process of Simple Apprehension
Creation of phantasm
Imagination
The Process of Simple Apprehension
Image of an extra-mental object
Phantasm
The Process of Simple Apprehension
Phantasm + meaning = idea
Abstraction
The Process of Simple Apprehension
T or F: Being able to imagine something without it existing in front of us is a human gift.
T
The Process of Simple Apprehension
T or F: You can process phantasm even without prior experience.
T
The Process of Simple Apprehension
T or F: Everything in the material world has an idea and material representation.
F
All has ideas but not all has material representation
The Process of Simple Apprehension
Expression of the idea = ?
Verbalization / Term
Terms as Signs
Signify a meaning towards a concept that is normally designated by man
Conventional
Terms as Signs
Man-made associations of meaning because we can associate these descriptions with a certain symbol
Conventional