REASON-Intro

Question 1

what is rationalism

Answer 1

reason itself can be a source of knowledge through using a priori synthetic knowledge and can be innate

Question 2

what is empircism

Answer 2

experience and evidence from the senses provide us with our knowledge

Question 3

what is innatism

Answer 3

the idea that some of our concepts or knowledge is not derived from experience but is not of the mind

Question 4

a priori

Answer 4

knowledge before experience

Question 5

a posteriori

Answer 5

knowledge after sense experience

Question 6

analytic

Answer 6

a proposition that is true purely because of the meaning of the word ( not adding anything to our experience of the word) -e.g squares have four sides

Question 7

synthetic

Answer 7

a proposition that isn’t analytic and tells us something about how the world is e.g. many ripe tomatoes are red

Question 8

contingent

Answer 8

could be true or false e.g. “i am in 341”- had different things happened this would not be the case