unit three test Flashcards
plato would say that knowledge of all forms is
something we were born with but need to remember
empiricism
knowledge comes from the senses
Descartes
i think, therefore i am
phenomenology
idea that things in the real world and people consciousness are the same thing
St. Thomas Aquinas
used species to describe combined concepts of matter and categorical properties
a skeptic would say
nothing can be known
Wittgenstein compare language to a game
the way we use words to defined by the context, like following rules in a game
aristotle used
inductive reasoning
Why does Berkeley say things continue to exist when we cannot perceive them?
because God always sees everything
difference between posterior and priori knowledge?
Kant believes in these two knowledges
psoteriori- knowledge that comes from sense experience
priori- knowledge that comes from the mind- there when born etc. time and space
How did Descartes come to his epistemological conculsion?
realized everything he knew was based from his senses, but his senses are untrustworthy
only thing he knew for certain was that he was thinking
he knows he exisit because he was able to think and reason
difference between rationalist and empiricist
empiricism- knowledge comes from the senses
rationalism- knowledge comes from the ability to reason
cogitio ergo sum and tabula rusa
Cogitio Ergo Sum- said Descartes, meaning i think therefore i am
Tabula Rusa- John Locke- Blank slate
(meaning when we are born blank slate, as we experience the world we gain and keep information)
why would a skeptic say we cannot trust our senses and ability to be rationalist
world cannot be trusted, ever changing
senses cannot be trusted- we are viewing the world
cannot trust senses, therefore cannot be rational
