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18 Cards in this Set
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What is an example of what Peirce called a, "vitally important topic." |
The instinct to survive |
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What is an example of an unreasoned (not to imply unreasonable) response/instinct?
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The instinct to survive
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On a purely quantitative level, which seems to play the minor role in our decision making - , unreasoned knowledge or reasoned knowledge? |
Reasoned knowledget playes the larger role |
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The set of unreasoned knowledge can be divided into two sub categories of instincts, what are they?
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Acquired instincts
and inborn instincts |
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Whenever we enter into the relation between ourselves and some subject matter that eventually results in knowledge of that subject, we feel conflict between what we already think we know, and what we are about to learn. Peirce called this ___- |
Doubt |
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Define doubt |
A conflict between what we think we know and what we are about to learn. |
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What phrase did Peirce use to describe what we have already accepted as true |
A fixed belief |
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What is a fixed belief? |
Something we have accepted as true, what we believe in a fixed way. |
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What is another word for a fixed belief according to Peirce?
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Knowledge is another word for a fixed belief according to Peirce.
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What is another term for knowledge we have accepted as true? |
Acquired instincts (p.40) |
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What did Peirce call the alignment of beliefs with their corresponding realities? |
Self-Control |
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Passage from fixed beliefs, habits or presumed already-knowns to conditions of doubt produced by a disagrement between our fixed beliefs and those very things about which our beliefs are fixed is called --- |
learning |
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What is learning |
that process that moves us to and through doubt toward the acquisition and development of human knowledge. |
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Define the difference between reasonable and reasoned |
Reasonable implies a kind of capacity or potential and reasoned means that this capacity or potential has been realized or brought into play. |
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WHy did Peirce believe there was no such thing as an absolutely first cognition? |
He believed we do not come to new experiences of knowledge completely devoid of previous experiences |
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How did Peirce define an analogy? |
strictly denotes only a partial similarity, as in some special circumstances of effects predictable of two or more things in other respects essentially different |
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The phrase, "learning enlightens the mind," is a type of... |
Analogy |
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Describe the difference in strength (my terminology) that Peirce attributed to inductive and deductive reasoning. |
Deductive reasoning can bring us certain truth, while inductive reasoning can bring us probability, strong or weak. |
