what is knowledge key words

Question 1

A posteriori

Answer 1

Knowledge that is gained via experience

Question 2

A priori

Answer 2

Knowledge that is gained via human reason

Question 3

Ability knowledge

Answer 3

Refers to practical knowledge- i.e. ‘knowing how’

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Acquaintance
knowledge

Answer 4

Refers to knowing a person, place, sense or feeling- i.e. ‘knowing of’

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Analytic

Answer 5

Something that is true be definition, such as ‘all bachelors are unmarried’

Question 6

Blank slate (tabula
rasa)

Answer 6

The belief that all knowledge is gained through experience and that when
you are born your mind/knowledge is empty

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Belief

Answer 6

Something that is accepted by an individual as true or held as an opinion

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Concept

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An abstract thought or idea about a particular topic

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Contingent

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Being dependent on, or conditioned, by something else. I.e. your existence
is contingent on your parents’ existence

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Counter-example

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An examples that refutes or disproves a particular proposition or theory

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Deduction

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Reaching a conclusion because the premises insist that the conclusion is
true. For example, P1- it rains on Thursday, P2- today is Thursday, C- It is
raining

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Empirical

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Knowledge that is based on observation/evidence

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Epistemology

Answer 12

The study of theories of knowledge

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Hypothesis

Answer 13

An assumption or statement proposed as a part of a theory

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Gettier case

Answer 14

Examples proposed by the philosopher Edmund Gettier which seek to
disprove the traditional definition of knowledge as justified true belief

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Justification

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The explanation as to why something is the way it is

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Lemma

Answer 16

A term used in maths and logic to describe a belief or assumption that is
held to be true, and that is used to justify a piece of knowledge

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Necessary

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Something that has to be the way it is – it is logically undeniable without
yielding a contradiction

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Objective

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Expressing facts or ideas which are not influenced by opinions or personal
feelings

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Premise

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A statement which is assumed or put forward as part of an argument

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Propositional
knowledge

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Knowing that something is the case – a statement that asserts something
about the world/reality around us

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Subjective

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Expressing ideas which are influence by opinions or personal feelings

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Sufficient

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The term to describe something which meets the needs of a situation or a
proposed end

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Synthetic

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Attributing a fact/claim about something based on observation, rather than
based purely on reasoning

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Tautology

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A statement that is true because of its logical form alone. “A circle is
circular.”

Question 25

Tripartite definition of
knowledge (JTB)

Answer 25

A belief counts as knowledge if it is justified and if it is true

Question 26

Virtue epistemology

Answer 26

A theory of knowledge that assesses knowledge based on intellectual
virtues and intellectual vices (K = V + T + B)

Question 27

Virtue ethics

Answer 27

An ethical theory which asks ‘Is this a good person?’ rather than ‘Is this a
good action?’