9/20 notes

Question 1

neoplatonist

Answer 1

follow plato in a new modified way

Question 2

skepticicms

Answer 2

claim that we human beings do not know anything

Question 3

socrates wisdom

Answer 3

humble recognition of own ignorance, knowing you do not know anything

Question 4

stoicism

Answer 4

empiricists, knowledge comes from observation of the world. Five senses are the criteria of truth

Question 5

what are the skeptical strategies

Answer 5

external impressions
-dream hypothesis
-innatism

Question 6

external impressions

Answer 6

oar is either bent of straight, tower is still or is it moving (like five seneses)

Question 7

dream hypothesisi

Answer 7

maybe youre asleep

Question 8

insanity hypothesisi

Answer 8

I am mad or sane

Question 9

innatism

Answer 9

internal impressions (augustine)

Question 10

what could Augustine’s argument be seen as

Answer 10

constructive dilemma

Question 11

divine illumination

Answer 11

when you learn anything divine light shows its true