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Epistemology
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The history of a linguistic form (as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found.
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What is Latin for Truth?
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Veritas
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Define Veracity:
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1 : devotion to the truth : truthfulness
2 : power of conveying or perceiving truth |
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What are Two Types of Reasoning Errors?
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Type 1 Reasoning Error:
Believing a Falsehood Type 2 Reasoning Error: Rejecting a Truth |
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Why is Truth Important?
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• As agents constantly interacting with the world, we must care about whether our beliefs accurately picture reality.
• To be indifferent to the truth of one’s beliefs, or to think that the truth of a belief is a matter of how one feels about things, rather than how things are, is to court disaster. |
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What is Dualism
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Metaphysically, the view that reality consists ultimately of two fundamentally different entities.
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Why is Truth Important?
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Because your beliefs facilitate your actions.
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Was rene descartes born before plato and socrates?
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No
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T or F: Knowledge implies belief but belief does not imply knowledge
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TRUE
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How do Rationalists and Empiricists obtain knowledge?
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Rationalists are born with it and Empiricists gain by observation and senses. Knowledge is BASIC to both
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Rationalism
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The position that reason alone, without the aid of sensory information, is capable of arriving at some knowledge, at some undeniable truths.
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Epistemology refers to that branch of philosophy that?
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That critically evaluates the nature, methodology, limitation, and origin of human knowledge.
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What does "Truth is a function of sentences" mean?
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That is to say, only sentences can be said to be true or false.
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What is The tripartite definition of knowledge?
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justified true belief.
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When is a proposition said to be justified as A priori?
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if its epistemic justification, the reason or warrant for thinking it to be true, does NOT depend on sensory experience.
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What is Empiricism?
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The position that knowledge has its origins in and derives all of its content from experience.
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When is a proposition said to be justified as A posteriori?
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if its epistemic justification, the reason or warrant for thinking it to be true, DOES depend on sensory experience.
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Who said "The mind is a blank slate." Tabula Rasa (Latin)
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John Locke
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What is an Examples of A Posteriori Knowledge?
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Halley ’s Comet returns to earth every seventy-five years.
- Have to see it to believe it |
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"The period of gestation for humans is nine months" Is that A priori or Rationalist?
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Its NONE of them.
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What was Rene Descartes?
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A Rationalists
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Who was the Critical mediator between rationalism and empiricism?
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Immanuel Kant
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What is Transcendental Idealism?
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In epistemology, the view that the form of our knowledge of reality derives from reason but its content comes from our senses.
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Who is "Transcendental Principle of Unity" related to?
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Immanuel Kant
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Phenomenal vs. Noumenal?
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Kant said the world that our minds construct and that we seem to see around us is the “phenomenal” world.
And The world as it might really be apart from our mind he called the “noumenal” world. |
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Copernican Revolution was created by?
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Immanuel Kant
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Who said Geocentricism => Heliocentricism
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Immanuel Kant
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Who said "Mind must conform to world => World must conform to the mind."
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Immanuel Kant
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Questions which had the name "bob" and "Shane"
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Immanuel Kant
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Why didnt Rene Descartes publish his book?
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Because he was afraid that the catholic church would charge him of heresy
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Who was the father of Modern Philosophy?
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Rene’ Descartes
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What is answer to Question dealing with Descartes’ Methodology?
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ALL OF THE ABOVE
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How many days did Rene Descartes meditate for?
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SIX DAYS
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Who used the term hyperbolic Doubt?
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Rene Descartes
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What is answer to the question which has both "None of the above" and "All of the above"?
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Answer is ALL OF THE ABOVE
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What happens in Meditation I?
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Systematic Doubt, So Empirical knowledge cannot be trusted.
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What happens by the End of Meditation II?
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He is Lost in beginning but then through “I think therefore I am” he is Found.
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What does Mental Stuff ≠ (NOT EQUAL)?
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Material Stuff.
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What does Mental Stuff = (EQUAL)?
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Incorporeal
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What does Material Stuff = (EQUAL)?
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Corporeal
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Do Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, claim the same truth(s)?
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Different communities have different procedures or criteria for separating truth from falsity.
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Answer to paradigm shifts?
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All of the above
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Answer to Science is self-correcting?
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all of the above
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Answer to Scientists can be biased?
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all of the above.
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TRUE OR FALSE? colors are created by our mind not by eyes
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TRUE
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