PSY 4130 Lecture 2: Chapter 4
13 Feb 2017
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Professional teachers of rhetoric and logic whoe believed that truth was relative and therefore no single truth was thought to exist. Anything is true if you can convince someone that it is true. Nothing is inherently wrong or right, but believing makes it so: introspection. The careful examination of one"s subjective experience. Part of plato"s theory of knowledge all knowledge is innate. Everything in the empirical (physical) world is a manifestation of a pure form (idea) that exists in the abstract. Only real knowledge is essences (truths) in the forms that exist independent of nature, known only by using introspection (rationalism: aristotle. Believe sensory experience to be the basis of all knowledge (empiricism) Mind must be employed to gain knowledge (rationalism) but object of the rational thought was information from sensory experience (empiricism) Theorized about reasoning, memory, imagination, dreaming, motivation and emotion. Aristotle believed everything has a purpose (teleology) which determined its potential.
