PSYC 305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Blastocyst, Psychophysical Parallelism, Sentience
23 Feb 2017
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Epistemology: branch of philosophy concerned with theories of knowledge. Ex: jean piaget was trained in zoology + studied human cognitive development but considered himself a student of genetic epistemology study of ways we solve problems as a function of our cognitive level. Priori: from what is prior vs posteriori: what comes later. A posteriori: refers to that which is derived from/ comes after experience. A priori: refers to self-evident truths that come before experience. Example: if a is larger than b and b is larger than c then a is larger than c. Claim can be made that the truth of the proposition is a priori without the experience we would not even know about the proposition. Can also claim to know the truth of the relationship through insight alone. According to the theory of a priori knowledge one could immediately grasp the truth of a statement. (cid:1445)we cannot both exist and not exist at the same time(cid:1446)
