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Knowledge empiricism
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- 1What is synthetic knowledgea proposition which cannot be determined to be true through understanding of the statement alone
- 2What is analytic knowledgeKnowledge which can be shown to be true through undertsand of the statement itslef
- 3what is a posteriori knowledgetruth which can be determined through experience
- 4a priori knowledgetruth independnet of experience
- 5hume's forkAll synthetic knowledge is a posteriori and all a priori knowledge is analytic
break this to disprove empiricism - find a priori synthetic - 6Leibniz argument of necessary truthswe know some necessary truths
the jsutification for which must not be based on particulars
experience provides particulars
the justicfication is the law of non-contradiction
this is necessary for learning
therefore is not learnt itself and is innate - 7Plato and the slave boyPythag is either learnt ot innate
the slave was not taught
the slave prodcued the theory, it is innate - 8No such knowledge responseLoNC is not knowledge but assertion
Pythag is application of other knowledge - 9Knowledge from experience responseFrom expereince the LoNC is deducible
Scocrated gave leading questions - 10Analytic knowledgeAnlaysis of any statement gives LoNC
Pythag is provable without drawing anything - 11Universal assentIf P is innate is is univesally assented to - no universal assent therefore no innate
- 12Links to non-naturalisminnate knowledge entails metaphysicis which is problematic
- 13Descartes argument for rationalismI think therefore i am
i have an idea of god
the cause is more real than the idea
the only option is god
i perceive objectis,
i am not the cause as it is involuntary
god or the object must be the cause
god would be deceiving me
therefore it is the object
therefore one has proved objectis exist a priori - 14issues with the causal principleit is not necessarily true that all things have causes
- 15cartesian circlei have perceptions - these are reliable because god exists - i know god exists because i perceive him
- 16Degrees of reality and causal adequacyIs a person more real than an idea? the idea is dependnet on the mind, therefore the midn is more real so the midn can be the origin of the idea of God
- 17Descartes waves of doubtSense doubt - our senses are not reliable
Dream doubt - dreams and reality are indistinguishable
Demon doubt - all awareness could be a deception by a demon - matrix
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- A level (AS) Philosophy Fichas sobre Knowledge empiricism , creado por John Doak el 02/05/2017.
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