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Epistemology Flashcards
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- 1What is epistemology?The theory of knowledge
- 2What does the word episteme?Scientific knowledge
- 3What does logos mean?Speech or word
- 4What is procedural knowledge?The knowledge of how to do something
- 5What is acquaintance knowledge?The knowledge of knowing someone
- 6What is propositional knowledge?The knowledge of facts
- 7What is evidentialism?Possession of evidence
- 8What is truth in a justified true belief?For something to be known it must actually be true
- 9What is belief in a justified true belief?One cannot know something without first believing it to be true
- 10What is justification in a justified true belief?Proof of a belief
- 11What is a priori?A proposition is knowable if it can be known without experience
- 12What is a posteriori?A proposition known through empirical evidence or experience
- 13What is scepticism?The denial that knowledge or rational belief is possible
- 14What is an assertion?A linguistic act - either written or spoken - that has a truth value
- 15What is a truth value?A state of being either true, false or indeterminate
- 16What is a proposition?The content of your assertion. The underlying meaning of what you are saying.
- 17What is a belief?A propositional attitude of truth
- 18What is propositional attitude?A person's mental state to the proposition they are making
- 19What is a justification?Evidence, or other support, for your belief
- 20What are Gettier cases?Situations in which one can have justified true belief, but not knowledge
- 21What is a sceptic?A person who questions whether anything can be known with certainty
- 22What are empirical beliefs?Beliefs we form through the use of our senses
- 23What are local doubts?Doubts about a particular sense experience, or some other occurrence at a particular point of time
- 24What is global doubt?Doubt relating to the world's existence
- 25What is doubt?Lack of certainty or conviction
- 26What is the traditional definition of knowledge?Justified true belief
- 27What is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?States that the truth or falsity of a statement is determined only by how it relates to the world and whether it accurately describes that world.
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