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23 Cards in this Set
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Relative perception
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Something can be felt or perceived differently by different people in different situations, even though it remains the same
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Rationalists
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Believe that knowledge comes from logic and reasoning
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Empiricism
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Believe that knowledge comes from the senses and experience
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'Tabula Rasa'
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All humans at birth are 'blank slates', with no innate knowledge
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Idealism
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Only our perceptions exist. If we cannot perceive it, it doesn't exist
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Coherence Theory
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A belief is true when one can incorporate it into a larger, more complex system of beliefs
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Correspondence Theory
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What is 'true' is whatever corresponds with reality. Distinguishes between facts and beliefs
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Foundationalism
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Some beliefs are 'foundational', i.e. at the core of all other beliefs
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Reliabilism
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Refers to a broad range of epistemological theories which attempt to explain knowledge and justification in terms of the process by which an individual forms a belief
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Process Reliabilism
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One has knowledge if and only one believes a proposition, the proposition is actually true and one's belief of the proposition is based on a reliable process
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Truth Conductive or Reliable Process
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"A belief-forming process that produces either mostly true beliefs or a high ratio of true to false beliefs"
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Pragmatism
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If a belief can be applied to the physical world and 'works' or functions, then it is true
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Animal theory
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If it is the same body it is the same person
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Brain theory
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If it is the same mind it is the same person
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Stream theory
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If someone can remember a person's experiences, then they are that person
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External theory
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If everyone else thinks it is the same person, then it is.
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The Fourth Dimension
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The first three dimensions refer to moving through physical space. The fourth dimension is true. We continuously travel through the fourth dimension
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Absolutism
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The belief that time is independent of how humans measure it and the contents of the universe
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Relationism
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The belief that time is just change in the relationships between physical objects
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Relative time
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When you state the time/date of one event as it is relative to another
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Non-Relative time
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When you state the date/time of an event, without regard to any other event
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Tenseless Theory of Time
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States that time is space. Yesterday, today and tomorrow all exist, but not at the same time
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Tensed Theory of Time
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States that time 'flows' or 'becomes'. The future does not yet exist and will be created depending on what happens in the present. The past is set in stone, it can never be altered
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