Epistemology Vocabulary Epistemology
Epistemology Vocabulary
Epistemology: The branch of philosophy that investigates the nature, sources, limitations, and validity of knowledge.
Rationalism: The position that reason alone, without the aid of sensory info, is capable of arriving at some knowledge, at some undeniable truths.
Empiricism: the position that knowledge has its origins in and derives all of its content from experience.
Idealism: in metaphysics, the position that reality is ultimately non matter; in EPISTEMOLOGY, the position that all we know is our ideas.
Transcendental Idealism: in epistemology, the view that the form of our knowledge of reality derives from reason but its content comes from our senses.
A Priori: pertaining to knowledge that is logically prior to experience; reasoning on based such knowledge.
A Posteriori: pertaining to knowledge stated in empirically verifiable statements; inductive reasoning.
Perception: The act or process by which we become aware of things.
Sense Data: Images or sensory impressions.
Primary Qualities: According to Locke, qualities that inhere in an object: size, shape, weight and so on.
Secondary Qualities: According to Locke, qualities that we impose on an object: colour, smell, texture and so on.
Solipsism: An extreme form of subjective idealism, contending that only I exist and that everything else is a product of my subjective consciousness.
Skepticism: In epistemology, the view that varies between doubting all assumptions until proved and claiming that no knowledge is possible.
Analytic Judgment:
Sumum Bonum:
Phenomenalism: The belief, associated with Kant, that we can know only appearances (phenomena) and never what is ultimately real (noumena); that the mind has the ability to sort out sense data and provide relationships that hold among them.
Induction reasoning: also know as inductionism, induction. The process of reasoning to probable explanations and judgments.
Hypothesis: in general, an assumption, statement, or
Epistemology: The branch of philosophy that investigates the nature, sources, limitations, and validity of knowledge.
Rationalism: The position that reason alone, without the aid of sensory info, is capable of arriving at some knowledge, at some undeniable truths.
Empiricism: the position that knowledge has its origins in and derives all of its content from experience.
Idealism: in metaphysics, the position that reality is ultimately non matter; in EPISTEMOLOGY, the position that all we know is our ideas.
Transcendental Idealism: in epistemology, the view that the form of our knowledge of reality derives from reason but its content comes from our senses.
A Priori: pertaining to knowledge that is logically prior to experience; reasoning on based such knowledge.
A Posteriori: pertaining to knowledge stated in empirically verifiable statements; inductive reasoning.
Perception: The act or process by which we become aware of things.
Sense Data: Images or sensory impressions.
Primary Qualities: According to Locke, qualities that inhere in an object: size, shape, weight and so on.
Secondary Qualities: According to Locke, qualities that we impose on an object: colour, smell, texture and so on.
Solipsism: An extreme form of subjective idealism, contending that only I exist and that everything else is a product of my subjective consciousness.
Skepticism: In epistemology, the view that varies between doubting all assumptions until proved and claiming that no knowledge is possible.
Analytic Judgment:
Sumum Bonum:
Phenomenalism: The belief, associated with Kant, that we can know only appearances (phenomena) and never what is ultimately real (noumena); that the mind has the ability to sort out sense data and provide relationships that hold among them.
Induction reasoning: also know as inductionism, induction. The process of reasoning to probable explanations and judgments.
Hypothesis: in general, an assumption, statement, or