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Knowledge depends predominantly on reason rather than experience.
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Regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge |
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| We perceive object A has property P, then object A has property P. |
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| Reality is fundamentally mentally constructed. |
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| Not aware of material objects directly, only aware of ideas. |
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After the fact
Making reference to experience, use of senses.
Predicate is not in subject
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"Some bachelors are walthy" |
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Rationalist
Atoms in the void |
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Rationalist
Change is an illusion |
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"We only have beliefs about the world".
Denies genuine knkowledge. |
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| Doubt the truth in all personal beliefs in order to determine which beliefs we can believe are true. |
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| Knowledge by acquaintance |
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Direct interaction w/ a person and the object a person is perceiving.
Sense data |
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E.G.
Ride a bike
Tie a shoe |
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Very plausible and intuitive theory of knowledge.
Justify all knowledge based on empirical beliefs.
Supported by the success of natural science. |
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| The view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist. |
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descriptions of the world that cannot be taken for granted.
possibly true but not necessarily true |
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True by definition, generally self-explanatory.
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Frozen water is ice.
Bachelors are unmarried men.
Two halves make up a whole. |
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a proposition that could not possibly have been false.
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2+2 = 4. |
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Logically possible that the sentence is false. true in some possible worlds and not in others
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human beings have evolved from other forms of life. |
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Before the fact, deduction, required truth
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All bachelors are unmarried men. |
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