Exam 3: Truth Knowledge

Russell said that sensations were the direct means of ascertaining the properties of objects.

In Hume's view, causation was an example of knowledge as "a matter of fact."

Kant was awakened from his dogmatic slumber by__________.

Why is it necessary for a feminist anaylsis of epistomplgy? Consider the work of Grosz and Narayan, what makes epistemology particularly suited to being sensitive to sexual orientation?

Bertrand Russell is concerned about what we actually mean by truth and falsehood. Briefly explain his concern and what inspired this approach to epistemology. What are the roles of coherence and correspondence in this argument?

__________ proposes eliminating the idea "analytic truth" and recognizing community-wide acceptance as a more useful criterion of truth with respect to such statements?

__________ is the study of knowledge.

Hume was a __________.

Noam Chomsky attributed the similarities in human thinking to an innate capacity for language.

A priori (knowledge) is knowledge "with experience" or after experience.

Kant claims that after reading Hume, he "awakened from his dogmatic slumbers." Explain what Kant means in this famous philosophical statement. How does Kant believe he has solved the epistemic problems of Hume's skepticism? Is Hume's skepticism actually capable of being solved.

Berkeley argues that an idea cannot resemble anything but an idea, so if there is an "original" object, it is itself and idea.

Kant influenced German Romantic philosophers who replaced his notion of "constitution" with the notion of "creation".

Grosz denies that the __________ of an author necessarily corresponds to the sexual orientation of a text.

"I think, therefore I am" served Descartes as __________.

According to __________, the things of the world are nothing other than ideas in the mind of God.

Leibniz argued that the senses, although necessary for all our actual knowledge, are not sufficient to give us the whole of it, since the senses never give anything except examples, that is to say particular or individual truths.

A necessary and sufficient condition is defined as follows: A is necessary and sufficient for B when A is both logically required and enough to guarantee B ("A if and only if B").

Kant refers to knowledge of our own rules with which we constitute reality as, __________ knowledge.

Kant argued that we experience events in a cause and effect relationship because we make our experience conform to causal rules.