Exam 2: Plato Knowledge Is Recollection

For Aristotle, "As the faculty of sense is to sensible objects [objects of sense perception], so must intellect be related to ..."

For Locke, the mind at birth is like an empty cabinet.

Hume says "When we entertain, therefore, any suspicion that a philosophical term is employed without any meaning or idea (as is but too frequent), we need but enquire from what impression is that supposed idea derived?"

Define and give an example of "knowledge a priori."

For Leibniz, the senses give us ...

Descartes's application of methodological doubt requires which of the following?

How does Koertge define the context of discovery?

When Frank asks. "Let me get this clear; did you mean that I was wrong that this book is red, or that I was wrong that it seems red to me?" The Epistemologist answers that Frank is wrong when he says that it seems red to him.

Pollock says, "Every argument must proceed from some truths, and if the skeptic calls all relevant certainty into doubt at the same time then there is no way to reason with him."

According to MacDonald, "none of the criteria appropriate to waking life apply to dreams."

What is Socrates's point when he says, "Do you see, Meno, what advances he has made in his power of recollection? He did not know at first, and he does not know now, what is the side of a figure of eight feet. But then he thought that he knew, and answered confidently as if he knew, and had no difficulty. Now he has a difficulty, and neither knows nor thinks that he knows."

According to Astell, what are the distinguishing characteristics of understanding as given through authority?

Longino calls the values that are internal to the sciences, the source of the rules determining what constitutes acceptable scientific practice or scientific method, constitutive values.

Why does Koertge want to argue against the claim that "science not only is, but should be politics by other means"?

What does Hume mean when he says, "No object ever discovers, by the qualities which appear to the senses, either the causes which produced it, or the effects which will arise from it; nor can our reason, unassisted by experience, ever draw any inference concerning real existence and matter of fact"?

For Socrates,

Augustine says, "we both are, and know that we are, and delight in our being, and our knowledge of it. Moreover, in these three things no true-seeming illusion disturbs us" because ...

Why does Hume claim that "The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible, because it can never imply a contradiction"?

Explain the difference between constitutive values and contextual values.

Why does Hume argue that "all inferences from experience suppose, as their foundation, that the future will resemble the past"? What are the consequences of this position?