PHIL 2540 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: De Jure, Concept Learning, Antithesis
16 Nov 2016
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Epistemologist (ontology): the theory of knowledge, with regard to methods, validity and scope. The investigation of what distinguishes justi ed belief from opinion. Studied the limits of reason: what we can"t know. Against a posteriori knowledge: locke and hume, ideas come from experience/ our senses. Against a priori knowledge: descartes, ideas are innate. Rejects locke"s view of tabula rasa: the mind has an active role in creating an experienceable world, the mind is structured to shape experience and gives objects characteristics (mind conforms objects to its structure and capacities) A posteriori: learned through sense, can be revised - using tools to do science. Analytic truth: true by de nition, concept is contained in the subject - ex. roses are roses; triangles have three sides. Synthetic truth: true only by experience, ampliative = adds to our knowledge - ex. the interior angles of a triangle add to 180degrees; canada is cold.
