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1
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What is the area of philosophy that deals with questions concerning knowledge and that considers various theories of knowledge?

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Epistemology

2
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What are the 3 types of knowledge and what do they correlate with?

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Performative (“how”, a skill), propositiona (“hat”, can’t experience diretly), and relational/knowledge by acquaintance (“what”/”of”/”who”)

3
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The typical focus of epistemology is on which type of knowledge?

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Propositional

4
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How has knowledge been defined since Plato?

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True justified belief

5
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What are the necessary conditions for knowledge?

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Truth, justification, belief

6
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What is the sufficient condition for knowledge?

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True justified belief

7
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What is a priori knowledge? What does it not tell us about?

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Knowledge independent of any particular experience; Antyhing about the world

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What is a posteriori knowledge?

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Knowledge that depends on/is based on a particular experience in the world

9
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What does empirical refer to?

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Anything based on experience

10
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What is the 1st epidemiological question?

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Is it possible to have knowledge at all?

11
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What is the 2nd epidemiological question?

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Does reason provide us with knowledge of the world independently of experience?

12
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What is the 3rd epidemiological question?

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Does our knowledge represent reality as it really is?

13
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What is the claim that we do not have knowledge?

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Skepticism

14
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What is the claim that reason/intellect is the primary source of fundamental knowledge about reality?

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Rationalism

15
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What is the claim that sense experience is the sole source of our knowledge about the world?

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Empiricism

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What is the claim that knowledge is neither already in the mind nor passively received from experience but that the mind constructs knowledge out of the materials of experience?

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Constructivism

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What is the claim that there is no universal, objective knowledge of reality because all knowledge is relative to either the individual or his culture?

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Epidemiological relativism