paths 1er parcial Flashcards
What is knowledge?
information that the human being obtains from reality
episteme
knowledge
logos
reason
epistemology
gives reason about the nature and validity of knowledge
the knowledge of knowledge
studies the scientific research and its product, the scientific knowledge
empiricism
the source of knowledge is experience
rationalism
the foundation of knowledge are reason and human thought
rationalist thinker
rene descartes
how descartes thinks?
assured that everything that the individual’s rationality provides is the bases of any knowledge
empiricist thinker
john locke and george berkeley
how locke thinks?
any idea must come from expierence or must be linked to it to be reliable
how george berkeley thinks?
he wents to the extremes of empiricism, dennied that anything existed if the individual didn’t experienced it
current symbol of empiricism
david hume
how david hume thinks?
show that the reason is not enough and that the expierence we have in the world is limited
what did david hume proposed?
a new concept based on the expierence, skepticism
describe skepticism
although we accept ideas based on the expierence, this expierence is very particular and does not account for all reality but a part of it , no knowledge can be entirely reliable
with the empiricist foundations ….
the empirical knowldege survived
with the rationalist foundations….
the analytical knowledge survived
empirical knowledge
happens with the experience, is perceived with the senses, can occur in everyday life, provoked,repeat the experience
analytical knowledge
is the result of the analysis of the causes and effects of a phenomenon
the philosopher that explained the methaphor of rationalists or empiricists
Francis bacon “It is not about spiders or ants, but about bees”
explain the metaphor of bacon
rationalists like spiders weave their fabric from the substance they produce , beautiful but empty, empiricists like ants collect evrything they come across without distinction, but the work of the bees that collect the best nectar and with their ability produce honey.
who postulated the materialism
karl marx
materialism
tells us that reality is mental and material and that knowledge is obtained through reason and experience when analyzing the changes in the world
inference
where the conclusion we reach derives from logical relation between ideas
methods by which our thinking makes inferences
deductive and inductive methods
deductive method
we analyze the object/phenomenon to understan each of its parts, to achieve a complete and detailed explanation