Test 2 Flashcards
Skeptic
Doubting, the is word is used to describe Diderot
Realistic
All ideas have an equal claim to truth, this word is used to describe Diderot
Who set up a 2 part world and what is it?
Descartes. 2 part world: me and the outside world
Statistics were invented
Censes divided by age, wealth, class, race
What is Principia Mathematica? Who created it?
It offered a theory of gravity, plus 3 laws of motion. Newton
Empiricism
Knowledge comes from our experience of things, most notably from our senses.
David Hume wrote what?
A treatise concerning human understanding
What is Hume?
All thoughts consist of sense impressions, ideas and imagination
What are the most vivid?
Sense impressions
What is imagination?
The recombination of your ideas?
What are the 3 patterns of relations?
Resemblance, contiguity (closeness in space and time), causation
Cause
A person or thing acting as agent to bring about an effect
Substance
The real or essential part or element of anything; what is “standing beneath” the appearances of a thing
Philology
The study of written words and texts
Abomination
Anything hateful and disgusting; anything that is loathed