Exam 2: Plato Knowledge Is Recollection

For Kant, there are two infallible tests for distinguishing pure from empirical knowledge, and they are inseparably connected with each other. They are: necessity and strict universality.

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 ...

How does Koertge define the context of justification?

For Aristotle, a mind is a mirror of abstract ideas (universals).

As Longino points out, "one can't give an objectively open specification of confirmation that effectively eliminates the role of value-laden assumptions in legitimate scientific inquiry without eliminating auxiliary hypotheses (assumptions) altogether."

MacDonald argues that the inability to apply tests to dreams "is logical, not physical or psychological. But when it is logically impossible that tests which prevent or correct mistake should be applied then it is nonsensical to assert that mistake can occur. No one can be deceived where no distinction can be made between what is and is not deceptive." Therefore, a dreamer is neither correct nor mistaken about what he dreams.

When Frank asks the Epistemologist why he goes through the roundabout process of directing a thought-reading machine at his own brain, and then finding out what he believes on the basis of the machine readings, what is the Epistemologist's answer?

Explain Peirce's ideas regarding the method of fixing belief called the method of science.

Peirce says, "Few persons care to study logic, because ..."

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

Longino advocates a research program in neuroscience and psychology proceeding on the assumption that humans do possess the capacities for ...

Koertge calls the process in which scientists choose research problems and develop strategies for formulating tentative solutions to them the context of justification.

According to Leibniz, necessary truths are found in ...

Zagzebski says, "I propose that knowledge is the epistemically ..."

When Socrates says, "Do you see, Meno, what advances he [the boy] 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," Socrates' point is that the boy doesn't understand basic Geometry.

Does the general form of the conditions for someone knowing a given proposition sound reasonable to you? Why or why not?

According to Leibniz, necessary truths are found representations of physical objects through sensation.

The main goal of Descartes in his Meditations is to make science and religion compatible.

When Frank says that he doubts that the machine measures his psychological states, his actual beliefs, the Epistemologist replies that the machine measures the __________ states and processes that Frank calls psychological states, beliefs, sensations, and so forth.

In the tale, the narrator locates the building where Harry was being held, only to find an operating room and a surgical team ...