Exam 2: Plato Knowledge Is Recollection

Peirce says, "The person who confesses that there is such a thing as truth, which is distinguished from falsehood simply by this, that if acted on it should, ..."

For Kant, the statement, "All bodies are heavy," is a synthetic judgment.

Koertge argues that the "sociological turn" in epistemology is a cause for worry because "it is embedded into a ranging systematic attempt to change the way ..."

Socrates asks, "What do you say of him [the boy], Meno? Were not all these answers given out of his own head?" Meno's reply is "Yes, they were all his own."

Kant defines the term "knowledge a priori" as being based on proof.

Koertge wants to argue against the claim that "science not only is, but should be, ..."

Descartes says that "I will suppose, then, not that God, who is supremely good and the fountain of truth, but that some malignant demon who is at once exceedingly potent and deceitful, has employed all his artifice to deceive me."

For Hume, all reasoning concerning matters of fact rest on the relation of major premise and minor premise.

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, ..."

The idea that scientific methodology guarantees the independence of scientific inquiry from values of value-related considerations is called truth-preserving premises.

Peirce says, "The irritation of doubt causes a struggle to attain a state of belief. I shall term this struggle abstraction."

How does Astell use the concept of "clear and distinct ideas"?

For Hume, all reasoning concerning matters of fact rest on the relation of ...

MacDonald claims that one obvious difference between dreams and waking illusions is that the latter can be the source of memory, behavior, and motivation.

Descartes asks the following: "How do I know that I am not also deceived each time I add together two and three"? Furthermore, "If, however, it were repugnant to the goodness of God to have created me subject to constant deception, it would seem likewise to be contrary to his goodness to allow me to be occasionally deceived; and yet it is clear that this is permitted." From this Descartes concludes that "there is nothing of all that I formerly believed to be true of which it is impossible to doubt."

According to Zagzebski, "The point of __________ is to increase the trustworthiness of our faculties, but we can only do that by using those same faculties in an especially careful and directed way."

List the conditions that you think are adequate for someone to know a given proposition.

For Socrates, the spontaneous recovery of knowledge is called ...

Augustine says that "without any delusive representation of images or phantasms, I am most certain that I am, and that I know and delight in this."

What are some examples that Hume uses to support his claim that "In vain, therefore, should we pretend to determine any single event, or infer any cause or effect, without the assistance of observation and experience"?