Chapter 10 Flashcards
Skeptic
To consider or examine
Need undoubtable evidence
Epistemology
A branch of philosophy that studies the nature of knowledge
Empricism
All knowledge derived from senses
Correspondence theory of truth
A thought is true if it is perceived to be true
Innate ideas
Priori knowledge
Knowledge from reason
Tabula rasa
Clean slate. Born with nothing
Promary qualities
Locke
Qualities independent of preserver
Shape size location motion
Secondary qualities
Locke
Percevered qualities
Sound color taste touch
Epistemological dualism
Knowing consists of the knowing and the knower
Egocentric predicament
If all knowledge is my ideas
How can I prove anything extermal to them
Idealism
Immaterialism
The belief that only ideas exist
Esse est percipi
To be is to be perceived
Empirical criterion of meaning
Meaningful ideas can be traced back to experience
Beliefs that cannot are not ideas but meaningless utterance
Bundle theory of self
No fixed self just a bundle of perceptions
Inductive reasoning
From some to all