Exam 3: Truth Knowledge

The causal theory of perception is the view that our experiences (our sensations and ideas) are the effects of physical objects acting on our sense organs (which are thereby the causes).

According to Kant what does not exist "out there", independent of our experience?

__________ argues that the necessity of allowing for falsehood makes it impossible to regard belief as a relation of the mind to a single object.

"Hume's fork" is Hume's insistence that every belief be justified either as a "relation of ideas" or as a "matter of fact."

John Locke held the view that we know everything from experience.

The tabula rasa or "blank tablet" view of the mind is __________ epistemological concept.

Kant believed that we __________ our experience in the sense that we provide rules and structures according to which we experience objects.

An inference from one statement to another according to a set of rules of inference is called __________.

Empiricism is the philosophy that demands that all knowledge, except for logical truths and principles of mathematics, comes from __________.

Uma Narayan extends the focus of feminist epistemology by pointing to the importance of recognizing __________.

Descartes declares in his first meditation that a good God would not deceive him and since God is good, it must be a __________ deceiving him.

In Locke, primary properties ("qualities") are caused in us by objects but do not inhere in the objects themselves (e.g., color).

__________ suggested that life is like a text, and the purpose of our lives is to understand that text.

The correspondence theory of truth can account for all cases of necessary truth (such as mathematical truths).

Hume arguments against the principle of universal causation and the principle of induction are also arguments against skepticism.

Knowledge can be defined as __________.

Which is not one of Kant's critiques?

__________ theory of truth says that a statement or a belief is true if and only if "it works," if it allows us to predict certain result, if it allows us to function effectively in everyday life, and if it encourages further inquiry or helps us lead a better life.

__________ central thesis is that "to be is to be perceived."

__________ is a type of knowledge, sense experience.