Exam 2: Plato Knowledge Is Recollection

Locke argues that if the use of reason is necessary to discover innate principles, then innate principles are the underlying basis for our capacity to reason.

Descartes application of methodological doubt requires that he will approach the criticism of the principles on which all his former beliefs rested.

According to Kant, although all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.

Gettier presents two cases in which the conditions are true for some proposition, though it is at the same time ...

For Hume, "all the materials of thinking are derived either from our outward or inward sentiment. Or, to express myself in philosophical language, all our ..."

For Kant, the statement, "All bodies are extended," is an analytic judgment.

In the tale that is being told, Harry is hit over the head with a blunt instrument.

Compare Leibniz's position regarding innate ideas to that of Aristotle or Locke.

If the thesis that a theory is always underdetermined by the evidence adduced in its support, then a consequence of this is that every scientific theory will eventually be shown to be false.

According to Koertge, what is a "scientific research program"?

MacDonald says that if you are asked the question, "Where did you meet Bernard Shaw?" and you answer, "In a dream," then your answer would be silly because ...

What are the two infallible tests for distinguishing pure from empirical knowledge, and how does Kant define them?

According to the Epistemologist, what is his machine capable of doing, and how does it do it? Do you think that such a machine is possible? Explain your answer.

What does MacDonald mean when she says a dreamer is neither correct nor mistaken about what he dreams? What support does MacDonald provide for this claim?

For Locke, the mind at birth is ...

Zagzebski says, "I propose that knowledge is the epistemically conscientious attainment of truth"

Aristotle says, "The mind, since it thinks all things, must be unlike anything it can know; hence it can have no nature of its own, other than that of having a certain ..."

When Frank says that he doubts that the machine measures his psychological states, his actual beliefs, the Epistemologist replies that the machine measures the physiological states and processes that Frank calls psychological states, beliefs, sensations, and so forth.

For Hume, "the effect is totally different from the cause, and consequently ..."

Zagzebski says, "When we reflect, we realize that we have no non-circular way to tell that our faculties have anything to do with the way the world is, so either we turn our pre-reflective trust into reflective trust, or we become ..."