Exam 2: Plato Knowledge Is Recollection

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 ...

Why does Frank believe that the deadlock in the discussion with the Epistemologist is simply semantical?

Zagzebski tells us that, "a situation in which a person forms a true belief on the basis of simple perception or memory or testimony, and does so automatically, with no reflection," is called "easy knowledge."

Aristotle says that the intellect is nothing at all actually before it ...

Hume says, "The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible; because it can never imply a contradiction."

Locke argues that young do not immediately understand abstract and general ideas.

For Hume, "all inferences from experience suppose, as their foundation, the future is clouded by a veil of ignorance."

What does Descartes use as his criterion for doubting?

MacDonald claims that one obvious difference between dreams and waking illusions is that the latter ...

Locke uses the term "idea" to stand for ...

What does Descartes hope to achieve from his methodological doubting?

Why does Koertge emphasize that the overriding professional goal of science is to discover truth? According to Koertge, how does the social constructivist program affect the search for truth?

Locke uses the term "idea" to stand for whatever is the object of the understanding when someone thinks.

For Peirce, "The object of reasoning is to find out, from the consideration of what we already know, something else which we do not know."

For Kant, if a judgment carries with it strict and absolute universality (it admits of no possible exception), then it is not derived from experience, but is valid a priori.

Augustine concludes that "as I know that I am, so I know this also, that my soul is immortal."

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 as a feminist."

Which of the following does Aristotle hold distinguishes the faculties of sense from that of the intellect?

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

Locke tells us that his main purpose is to inquire into the physical consideration of the mind and to examine in what its essence consists.