L14 (Does The Mind Shape The World?)

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Universal-

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applies always, everywhere.

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A posteriori-

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Dependent upon or originating in sensory experience.

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Necessary-

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a claim that is always and everywhere true or a concept that applies and in every case.

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Weltanschanung-

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world-view, conceptual scheme.

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Synthesis-

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the bringing together or unifying into a new viewpoint or two or more divers viewpoints.

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Conceptual schemes-

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the integrated system of concepts and beliefs which constitute our understanding.

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Empiricism-

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the philosophical view that our minds are blank tablets upon which experience “writes” our ideas.

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Noumena-

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Kant’s terms for the ding an sich (see relating definition)

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Age of Enlightenment:

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A period in European history, usually identified with the late seventeenth century and the eighteenth century, in which there was a shared optimism regarding the power of reason to know all of reality and to solve all social and personal problems.

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Ding an sich:

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Kant’s term for the thing-in-itself or the unconceptualized source of our sensory intuitions.

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A priori-

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Independent of experience or, as suggested in this episode, prior to experience.

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Rationalism-

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The philosophical view that experience is not the sole source of our ideas but that certain ideas and principles are innate, or a priori.

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Relativism-

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The theory that beliefs or conceptual schemes not only vary, perhaps from culture to culture- cultural relativity—but are fundamentally rationally indeterminate or incommensurate.

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Romanticism-

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a viewpoint that accentuates feeling and emotion over reason.