day life‚ whether we think about it or not. They are a huge part of our value system and how we make decisions. The four discussed branches of philosophy are metaphysics‚ epistemology‚ logic‚ and axiology. Metaphysics is the “nature of reality” and essentially explains the nature of the world and human beings. Epistemology is the meaning of knowledge and how one acquires knowledge. Logic is simply reasoning in hopes to find the truth. Lastly‚ axiology is based on the values of society focusing
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Theories of Justification Identify and carefully examine two theories of justification. “The concern with understanding human knowledge has been a central philosophical one.”1“Like Rene Descartes‚ we have all ask ourselves at one time or another couldn’t everything I seem to see‚ hear‚ etc. Be illusory? Might I’ll in fact be dreaming all this? If so what do I really know of the outside world?"2 Knowledge is a vague concept according to Bertrand
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have come to the conclusion that we can’t know anything for sure. I made this comment to my philosopher friends George Berkeley and John Locke. They both looked at me and started arguing with one another on their beliefs. Their beliefs align with epistemology which is the study of knowledge. Part Two: Argument Analysis John Locke believed we are born with innate knowledge which is gained from experience. Locke said‚ “To this I answer in one word‚ from experience: in that all our knowledge is founded
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1.0 Introduction Over the years‚ the nature of reality‚ knowing‚ thinking and believing has constituted puzzling issues which epistemology attempts to grapple with. Issues cutting across what can we know‚ what is the nature and scope of human knowledge‚ what can be known with certainty‚ how do we acquire knowledge‚ how can we know what is when we come across it‚ what can be left to faith or opinion to decide‚ as well as the proper source of knowledge preoccupied the philosophical and at the same
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ways epistemological beliefs are enmeshed within their day-to-day professional lives‚ focusing on the complex fabric of the teaching practice. KEY WORDS: contemporary epistemological research‚ education‚ enactivism‚ lived experiences‚ personal epistemology We rehearse information‚ but perform meaning. Information is like the web of links in a wire fence; Meaning is like the cascade of waves on a mountain stream. Cliff Crego (2002) © 2002 picture-poems.com THEORY & PSYCHOLOGY Copyright © 2008
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Web. 12 Nov. 2011. <http://highered.mcgraw-……hill.com/sites/076742011x/student_view0/chapter6/glossary.html>.>…………. Newman‚ L. Descartes ’ epistemology. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics ……Research Lab‚ CSLI‚ Stanford University‚ 20 July 2010. Web. 12 Nov. 2011. ……<http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-epistemology/>. Paquette‚ Paul G. Philosophy: questions & theories. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson‚ 2003. ……Print.
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failed‚ to illuminate how the human mind functions. The pursuit for the solution to this question has led to the development of two schools of philosophy‚ rationalism and empiricism‚ dealing specifically with epistemology‚ or‚ the origin of knowledge. Two of the most famous philosophers of epistemology are rationalist Rene Descartes and empiricist David Hume. Rationalism is the idea that reason and logic are the foundation of knowledge. It states that awareness is instinctive‚ and that it cannot come from
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FIELD DEFINITION HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT KEY CONTRIBUTORS PRINCIPAL ISSUES Epistemology the theory of knowledge‚ is the branch of philosophy concerned with these questions a. Schools of thought and historical development 1) Skeptics a) Ancient (1) Pyrrho of Elis (2) Sextus Empiricus b) Medieval (1) St. Augustine 2) Rationalists a) Ancient (1) Plato b) Medieval (1) St. Anselm (2) St. Augustine c) Modern (1) Descartes (2) Leibniz (3) Spinoza 3) Empiricists
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Reading (refer to the requirement of page 32) – Extract Three Polyani‚ M.‚ The Tacit Dimension‚ Petersmith‚ 1966 (ch.1 p3-25) Polanyi claimed that his thinking commences from the truism that ‘we can know more than we can tell’ (4). Do you agree? Yes‚ it is because it is hard to express by verbal means. It is through observation and experience that can acquire tacit knowledge. Are you clear as to what Polanyi means by the ‘proximal’ and the ‘distal’? ‘proximal and distal’ are integrated to become
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The study of knowledge‚ or epistemology‚ contains theoretical methods in which information is learned. Of these methods‚ there are two that are most widely accepted. Rationalism and empiricism are also the most widely debated methods of knowledge. Rationalism claims that a priori processes and intuition gain knowledge. Rationalism claims that knowledge is innate; but that it varies among humans. At the other end of the spectrum‚ empiricism claims that knowledge is gained largely by experience‚ observation
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