Exam 3: Truth Knowledge

Descartes applied a philosophical technique of __________.

According to Quine, epistemology is a subset of what scientific study?

Which two disciplines did Kant weave together into a single cohesive philosophy?

Discuss Russell's appearance/reality distinction. What things seem to be and what they really are may be radically different because our senses can reveal the truth only about the appearance of an object, not what its properties actually are. How does Russell argue that sensations are mere signs of properties? How accurate are the signs at revealing the world the way it really is? Is there any way to check?

__________ is a common name for Descartes circular argument, in which he argues that the proof of God's existence is in God himself.

Descartes believed that beliefs could be justified by experience alone.

Kant intended for his philosophical revolution to prove that there are many truths for all of us.

For Russell, belief is true when there is a __________ fact.

Locke turned to the data of __________ as the ultimate source of all knowledge.

Hume's argues that simple ideas are derived from __________.