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| theory of knowledge. the study of the origin, nature, and limits of knowledge including especially the study of the nature of epistemic justification |
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| All knowledge comes from sense experience |
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| Rationalists(continental) |
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| Some knowledge can be known to be true without empirical verification |
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| Primary qualities are ones that objects would continue to possess even if there were no perceiving beings in the world. |
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| Characterisitcs that exist only when sensed and then only in the mind of the one who senses them. color, taste, smell, sound, warmth, cold. |
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| Position of the ordinary person who holds that both primary and secondary qualities have a real existence in material objects independently of perceiving minds |
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| 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 |
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| ideas faithfully mirror or represent material objects to us in perception. |
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| 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 |
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| ideas faithfully mirror or represent material objects to us in perception. |
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| The theory that the objects of our knowledge have an independent existence rather than being mind dependent |
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| casual theory of perception |
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| material objects are the causes of appearances or the sense data we have of them |
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| Is that which is distinct from its own secondary and primary qualities. It is simply posited as the unknowable |
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| 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 |
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| Subjective idealism(idealism) |
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| World in which only perceiving minds (subjects) and their ideas (primary and secondary qualities) exist. The universe is purely mental |
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