Exam 2: Plato Knowledge Is Recollection

According to Kant, all knowledge begins with ...

Longino calls the values that are personal, social, and cultural, those group or individual preferences about what ought to be, transformational values.

Augustine says, "we perceive the things outside of us-colors by seeing, sounds by hearing, smells by smelling, tastes by tasting, hard and soft objects by touching-of all which sensible objects it is ..."

Do you agree with Leibniz's position regarding innate ideas? Explain your answer.

Pollock says, "The skeptic is not just questioning our beliefs. He is also questioning the cognitive processes by which we arrive at our beliefs, and if we start all over again we will still be employing the same cognitive processes."

According to Zagzebski, "The natural end of belief is doubt."

Explain Leibniz's position regarding "necessary truths."

For Hume, "All the objects of human reason or enquiry may naturally be divided into two kinds." What are they?

What is Socrates's response when Meno asks, "How will you inquire, Socrates, into that which you do not know? What will you put forth as the subject of inquiry? And if you find what you want, how will you ever know that this is the thing which you did not know?"

According to the Epistemologist, "If the machine is trustworthy, then I had better accept its suggestion to distrust it. But if I distrust it, then I also distrust its suggestion to distrust it." In other words, the Epistemologist is devoid of free will.

Do you agree with Leibniz when he 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. Explain your answer.

The boss tells the narrator that Harry "thinks he is shaving right now and getting ready to go to the office and stick it to another neurosurgeon. But actually, he's ..."

Augustine says that "without any delusive representation of images or phantasms, I am most certain that ..."

Kant describes analytic judgments as those "in which the connection of the predicate with the subject is cogitated through identity.

According to Descartes, "All that I have, up to this moment, accepted as possessed of the highest truth and certainty, I received either from or through the senses."

What is Augustine's answer to the skeptics who say, "What if you are deceived?"

The boss tells the narrator, "I'll bet you think we're going to operate on you and remove your brain just like we removed Harry's, don't you? But you have nothing to worry about. We're not going to remove your brain. We already did-three months ago!"

Kant describes analytic judgments as those "in which the connection of the predicate with the subject is cogitated ..."

Koertge tells us that when scientists typically structure their search by working within a metaphysical or theoretical framework that has proved fruitful in the past, utilizing a variety of heuristic principles, which they believe will lead them to the most plausible candidates to a solution to their problems, they are working within a ...

According to Astell, "If the medium we make use of to prove the proposition is authority, then the conclusion which we draw from it is said to be believed."