Details Title: Epistemology Terms Description: Epistemology Total Flash Cards: 15 Created: 09/10/2008 00:50:56		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Philosophy Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term Epistemology Definition theory of knowledge. the study of the origin, nature, and limits of knowledge including especially the study of the nature of epistemic justification Term Empiricists(british) Definition All knowledge comes from sense experience Term Rationalists(continental) Definition Some knowledge can be known to be true without empirical verification Term Primary qualities Definition Primary qualities are ones that objects would continue to possess even if there were no perceiving beings in the world. Term Secondary Qualities Definition Characterisitcs that exist only when sensed and then only in the mind of the one who senses them. color, taste, smell, sound, warmth, cold. Term Naive realism Definition Position of the ordinary person who holds that both primary and secondary qualities have a real existence in material objects independently of perceiving minds Term Sophisticated Realism Definition Sophisticated because it holds to the distinction of primary and secondary qualities. realism because it allows for the real exsistence of material objects independent of minds Term Representative realism Definition ideas faithfully mirror or represent material objects to us in perception. Term Sophisticated Realism Definition Sophisticated because it holds to the distinction of primary and secondary qualities. realism because it allows for the real exsistence of material objects independent of minds Term Representative realism Definition ideas faithfully mirror or represent material objects to us in perception. Term Realism Definition The theory that the objects of our knowledge have an independent existence rather than being mind dependent Term casual theory of perception Definition material objects are the causes of appearances or the sense data we have of them Term Substratum Definition Is that which is distinct from its own secondary and primary qualities. It is simply posited as the unknowable Term Subjectivism Definition The view that all knowledge is limited to the nature of objects as known though human experience, rather than objectively in themselves; it is impossible for us to transcend human subjectivity Term Subjective idealism(idealism) Definition World in which only perceiving minds (subjects) and their ideas (primary and secondary qualities) exist. The universe is purely mental