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30 Cards in this Set
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Skeptic
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From the Greek skeptesthai, "to consider or examine"; a person who demands clear, observable, undoubtable evidence before accepting any knowledge claim as true.
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Empiricism
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Belief that all knowledge is ultimately derived from the sences (experience) and that all ideas can be traced to sense data |
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Tabula rasa
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Expression for a "clean slate" used by john locke to challenge the possibility of innate ideas by characterizing the mind at birth as a blank tablet or clean slate |
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Primary qualities
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according to Locke, objective sensible qualities that exist independently of any perciver; shape, sixe, location, and motion are examples of primary qualities
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secondary qualities
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According to Locke, subjective qualities whose eistence depends on a perceiver; color, sound, taste, and texture are examples of secondary qualities
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Epistemological dualism
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the view that knowing consists of two distinct aspects; the knower and the known
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Egocentric predicament
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problem generated by epistemological dualism; if all knowledge comes in the form of my own ideas, how can i verify the existence of anything external to them?
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idealism (immaterialism)
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Belief that only ideas (mental states) exist: the material world is a fiction- it does not exist
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Emperical criterion of meaning |
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Bundle theory of the self |
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inductive reasoning |
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Hume |
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Locke
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Berkeley
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Tree falling in the woods
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Empiricists |
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The perceiver
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Categorical Imperactive
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Kant-
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Thought experiment
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Original position
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Veil of ignorance |
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Kingdom of ends |
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John Rawls
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Immanual Kant
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Psychological hedonism |
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Ethical Hedonism
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Hedonism
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Principle of utility |
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Altruism
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