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A Posteriori
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Knowledge that is dependent upon observation, experience, or sense perception. Knowledge arising out of experience.
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A Priori
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Knowledge that is independent of observation, experience, or sense perception. Knowledge acquired prior to experience, used to interpret and evaluate experience.
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belief
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a mental state of affirmation of a proposition
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confidence
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the psychological property of a feeling of assurance that a proposition is true
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discursive
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characterized by a step by step procedure
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empiricism
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the view that all knowledge is a posteriori - known by experience
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epistemological self-consciousness
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the state of being aware of one's presuppositions and the implications that arise from them; knowing why we believe what we believe
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innate idea
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a concept known a priori and characterized by universality and necessity
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intuition
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direct, immediate (non-discursive) knowledge
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knowledge
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justified true belief
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necessary
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necessary truth is a feature of any statement that it would be contradictory to deny
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mysticism
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the view that reality is ineffable and transcends precise conceptual schemes; thus, it is known by non-rational means
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phenomenalism
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the view that what we know is mind-dependent; so that knowledge is limited to appearance. belief that the immediate objects of sensation provide no evidence for the existence of anything beyond themselves.
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rationalism
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the view that all knowledge is a priori - known by the mind, not by experience. 1) belief that human reason is the ultimate arbiter of truth and falsity. 2) belief that human reason is the road to knowledge
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solipsism
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belief that only i myself and my own experienecs are real, while anything else-a physical object or another person- is nothing more than an object of my consciousness. the view that everything other than oneself is a state of oneself.
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