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42 Cards in this Set
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egocentric predicament
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humans cant look outside of their individual expereces
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Epistemology
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philosophical branch dealing with the study of knowledge
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Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
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Nun that argued that for her to better understand God she must know as much about everything as she could
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Rene Descartes
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"I think therefore I am" rationalist
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Cogite
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Descarte's proof of mental existance
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Solipsism
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Belief that only the mind exists and everthing else is a perception
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Innate
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inborn, not learned or acquired
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Substance
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the underlying realiy of something. primary qualities
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mind-body problem
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mind and body become seperate. how can they both exist togather in one person
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Monad
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Leibniz's word for what made up the universe
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Leibiniz
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developed the "calculus" of philosophy
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Preestablished harmony
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the natural harmony between body/soul. established by God
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Anne Finch
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proposed no seperation between mind-body or body-soul
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Okra
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the life force in the african Akan
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Mogya
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bloodline/clan identity in the Akan
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Sunsum
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destinctive aspects of the individual in Akan
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Adwene
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mind in Akan
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Empiricism
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knowledge aquired by sense experence
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John Locke
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primary qualities- possesed by object
secondary quality- what we precieve |
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George Berkley
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both primary and secondary qualities are in our perceptions
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David Hume
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Radical Skepticism, absolute knowledge is unabtainable
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Hume's fork
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all knowledge is either matters of fact or relations to ideas. nothing else matters
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Phenomena
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things that appear as perceptions to Kant
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Kant
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strict empiricist and logical to a fault
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Noumena
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Things as they are in and of themselves. Kant
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Synthetic a Priori
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descriptions of statments that actually tell up something. Kant
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law of noncontradiction
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a and not-a cannot both be true at the same time
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Law of excluded middle
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there is no middleground between a and not-a
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law of identity
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a=a
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Warrent
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evidence or justification for a claim of truth
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logical fallacies
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appeal to emotion, appeal to authority, begging the question, appeal to ignorince, ambiguity, ad feminam
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Pragmatic
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what is true is what works
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creativity test
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what is true is what promotes life and growth
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Koan
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a zen riddle designed to stop rational thought
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sitting
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zen silent meditation
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deconstruction
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breaking down texts to find their meaning
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neotic
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having the quality of knowledge
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ineffable
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unable to be put into words
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aesthetics
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the philosphical reflection on art and beauty
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mimesis
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aesthetic theory of representation
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enjoyable beauty
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personal preference in art
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admirable beauty
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intrinsic excellence or perfection in art
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