Exam 2: Plato Knowledge Is Recollection

Leibniz says, "since there is in ourselves being, unity, substance, duration, change, action, perception, pleasure, and a thousand other objects of our intellectual ideas," we can conclude that these ideas came about through our sense perceptions.

Longino suggests that "we focus on science as practice rather than content, as process rather than product, hence, not on feminist science, but on doing science ..."

What advice does the machine give the Epistemologist when the question of his sanity arises?

For Kant, a clear example of how far, independently of all experience, we can carry our a priori knowledge can be seen in ...

What does Zagzebski mean by "epistemic conscientiousness"?

Peirce claims that throughout history one of the chief means of upholding theological and political doctrines has been the use of the method of fixing belief called the ...

Peirce says, "There are real things, whose characters are entirely independent of our opinions about them; those realities affect our senses according to regular laws, and, though our sensations are as different as are our relations to the objects, yet, by taking advantage of the laws of perception, we can ascertain by reasoning how things really and truly are, and any man, if he have sufficient experience and reason enough about it, will be led to the one true conclusion." By following this, we are using the method of science.

Explain the "terrible paradox" that confronts the Epistemologist. Why does he take it seriously? Do you see a way out for the Epistemologist?

Descartes says, "all things being maturely and carefully considered, that this proposition-I am, I exist-is necessarily true each time it is expressed by me, or conceived in my mind. This alone is inseparable from me. I am-I exist: this is certain; but how often?" Descartes answers his own question by saying "As often as I think."

Koertge calls the process in which the results of the scientist's informal or private ruminations are submitted to public empirical testing and the critical scrutiny of the scientific community the ...

Why does Frank say that he doubts that the Epistemologist's machine can measure Frank's psychological states, his actual beliefs?

For Socrates, all inquiry and all learning are recollection.

When the narrator is discovered, he is astonished to realize that the boss of the operation was ...

When the question of the Epistemologist's sanity arises, it turns out that, "According to the machine the best thing I can do is to ..."

Hume says that we can divide all the perceptions of the mind into two classes or species. What are they?

Explain Augustine's meaning when he says, "For, as I know that I am, so I know this also, that I know."

According to Locke, the mind learns by degrees and grows familiar with some ideas lodged in the memory, and the names attached to them. Afterwards, the mind abstracts them, and learns the use of general names. This process starts because ...

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

Descartes concludes at the end of Meditation II that …

The Epistemologist claims to have constructed a brain-reading machine that is capable of scanning every nerve cell in your brain; he calls it a "thought-diviner."