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A priori |
Knowledge of propositions that does not require experience to be true or false. |
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A postoriori |
Knowledge of propositions that require experience to be true and false. |
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Analytic |
A proposition that is true in virtue of the word meaning. |
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Cognitive |
Language or thought that can be true or false and aims to express how things are. |
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Euthyphro Dilemma |
Does god do what is morally good because it is good, or because god wills it? |
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Gettier Case |
Situations in which we have JTB, but not knowledge. |
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Humes Fork |
We can have knowledge of just two sorts of claim. The relations between ideas and matters of fact. |
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Infallibilism |
To be knowledge, a belief must be certain. If we can doubt a belief, then it is not certain, and neither is knowledge. |
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Kalam Argument |
A claim that everything that begins has a cause, and since the universe came into existence, it must have a cause. |
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No False Lemmas |
A condition which is added to the tripartite theory of knowledge. That for something to count as knowledge it must be the case that you did it not to infer from anything false. |
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Ockhams Razor |
Principle that states that we should not put forward a hypothesis that says many different things exist when a simpler explaination will do as well. |
