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| the quality of being clear, logical, and convincing; lucidity. |
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| Wanted to ascertain pure and certain knowledge felt that he couldn't rely on his senses. Doubt everything. When we are dreaming we believe it to be true. There's no way to know that what we perceive when we are awake is true, like when we are dreaming are senses could be fooling us. "I think therefore I am" |
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| Metaphysics; difference between perceptions and ideas. We are limited to sense perceptions. |
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| All knowledge comes from experience, we are born with a blank slate. Our knowledge does not go beyond human ideas. We know that our ideas extend to external realities because we can not have knowledge of something without experience. |
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| a personal view, attitude, or appraisal. |
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| the way the mind processes certain characteristics of an object through its relationship to the senses. For example, a certain smell may be associated with a memory, like the smell of hot dogs at a baseball game. |
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| the use of fallacious arguments, esp. with the intention of deceiving. |
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| the theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience. |
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| inductive reasoning allows for the possibility that the conclusion is false, even if all of the premises are true. |
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| a particular method of reasoning or argumentation |
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| Student of Socrates; metaphor of the cave. |
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| the doctrines or opinions of philosophical Skeptics; universal doubt. |
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| competent, sensible, or valid: sound judgment. |
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| A deductive argument is an argument that is intended by the arguer to be (deductively) valid, that is, to provide a guarantee of the truth of the conclusion provided that the argument's premises (assumptions) are true. |
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| Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope of knowledge and is also referred to as "theory of knowledge" |
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| facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. |
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| the branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space. |
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| a belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response |
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| The Apology; accused of corrupting the youth by providing demonic knowledge. Sought out truth for the Oracle. |
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| the ability to understand something; comprehension. |
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| What are the parts of an argument ? |
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| How do you know if an argument is sound ? |
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| A deductive argument is sound if and only if it is both valid, and all of its premises are actually true. Otherwise, a deductive argument is unsound. |
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| How would Plato/Socrates define philosophy? |
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| philosophy is the science of asking many questions, which in turn raises more questions which must be answered in order to know or understand something. |
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| How does Descartes define knowledge ? |
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| Famously, Descartes defines knowledge in terms of doubt. |
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| How does Locke define knowledge ? |
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| Knowledge then seems to me to be nothing but the perception of the connexion and agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy of any of our Ideas. In this alone it consists. |
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| How did Hume define knowledge ? |
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| Hume's philosophy was that all human knowledge came from perception rather than reason. |
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| "it is the greatest good for a man to discuss virtue every day and those other things about which you hear me conversing and testing myself and others, for the unexamined life is not worth living." |
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| Thus it must be granted that, after weighing everything carefully and sufficiently, one must come to the considered judgment that the statement 'I am, I exist' is necessarily true every time it is uttered by me or conceived in my mind.' |
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Let usthen suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how
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| When we entertain therefore, any suspicion that a philosophical term is employed without any meaning or idea (as is but too frequent), we need but enquire, from what impression is that supposed idea derived? And if it be impossible to assign any, this will serve to confirm our suspicion. By bringing ideas into so clear a light we may reasonably hope to remove all dispute, which may arise, concerning their nature and reality. 1 |
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