Chapter 10 Flashcards

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Skeptic

A

To consider or examine

Need undoubtable evidence

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2
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Epistemology

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A branch of philosophy that studies the nature of knowledge

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3
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Empricism

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All knowledge derived from senses

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4
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Correspondence theory of truth

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A thought is true if it is perceived to be true

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5
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Innate ideas

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Priori knowledge

Knowledge from reason

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6
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Tabula rasa

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Clean slate. Born with nothing

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7
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Promary qualities

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Locke
Qualities independent of preserver
Shape size location motion

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8
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Secondary qualities

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Locke
Percevered qualities
Sound color taste touch

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9
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Epistemological dualism

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Knowing consists of the knowing and the knower

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10
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Egocentric predicament

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If all knowledge is my ideas

How can I prove anything extermal to them

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11
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Idealism

Immaterialism

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The belief that only ideas exist

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12
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Esse est percipi

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To be is to be perceived

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13
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Empirical criterion of meaning

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Meaningful ideas can be traced back to experience

Beliefs that cannot are not ideas but meaningless utterance

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14
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Bundle theory of self

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No fixed self just a bundle of perceptions

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15
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Inductive reasoning

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From some to all

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