REASON AS A SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE : KEY TERMS

Question 1

A PRIORI

Answer 1

• doesnt require sense experience to know it to be true; you can figure out whether the proposition is true just by thinking about it

Question 2

A POSTERIORI

Answer 2

• can only be established through sense experience

Question 3

ANALYTIC PROPOSITIONS

Answer 3

• a proposition that is true/false just in virtue of the meanings of the words

Question 4

SYNTHETIC PROPOSITIONS

Answer 4

• a proposition that is true/false not just in virute of the meanings of the words but in virtue of the way the world is

Question 5

CONTINGENT TRUTHS

Answer 5

• a proposition that is possible to be true/false

Question 6

NECESSARY TRUTHS

Answer 6

• a proposition that must be true (or necessarily false if it must be false)

Question 7

INNATISM

Answer 7

• we are born w/ ideas/knowledge (it is innate)

Question 8

RATIONALISM

Answer 8

• we have some a priori knowledge from rational insight and reasoning

Question 9

EMPIRICISM

Answer 9

• our knowledge comes from experience