Aristotle: The Universals are in the particulars. We come up with ideas by going to specific to universal (Inductive) CH 8 and 9 QUIZ: 1. Who advocated the notion of innate ideas? PLATO 2. Name a rationalist identified in the reading PLATO‚ CHOMSKE‚ DESCARTES 3. Name an empiricist identifies in the reading‚ ARISTOTLE‚ LOCKE 4. T/F: Locke is an advocate of innate ideas FALSE 5. What does the phrase tabula rasa signify? BLANK SLATE 6. What philosopher is associated with “pehenomenalism?’ HUNE OBJECTIVES:
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any new movement or method of teaching‚ the approaches are myriad and indeed in the experimental stages. Some teachers use critical thinking to study across disciplines - science‚ economics‚ politics‚ art‚ history. (Descartes -- with his strong leanings toward math and science - was indeed a forefather of cross-discipline studies.) Some use an issue-oriented approach‚ applying critical thinking to everything from gender to humor‚ war and peace‚ even
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Apologetics Exam Fall‚ 2009 Please type the responses; Double-space; One hour limit; Put your name on the exam Michael Gabizon CPO 313 1. State the four logically possible ways in which evidentialism could go about justifying its beliefs? Briefly evaluate each of the options. [20] Evidentialism holds four logical possibilities in an attempt to justify their beliefs. There is historical evidence‚ negative apologetics‚ minimal evidence‚ and the Holy Spirit. The first step is Historical
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a Foundation‚” he argues against foundationalism by and ultimately concludes that “strong foundationalism is untenable as a solution to the regress problem” (6). He explores externalism‚ a view that holds that rational explanations are found through observing objective features that exist in the world; as well as givenism‚ the view that one can understand facts without having evidence or beliefs regarding those facts. In this paper‚ I will define foundationalism and outline BonJour’s anti-foundationalist
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Conclusion: The Contextualism theory has many different factors associated with it that are overlooked by both the Foundationalism theory and the Coherentism theory. Contextualism is a good option to Foundationalism and Coherentism‚ because unlike the latter two‚ Contextualism focuses on the social natures and contextual parameters of justification. Clarification: Foundationalism "The theory that every empirical statement which is justified ultimately must derive at least some of its justification
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By seeking and seeing common ground in anti-foundationalism‚ Huffer allows their differences to remain in a way that is workable (and echoes the political project of difference and differentiation of Audre Lorde). At first this association would seem untenable – or at the very least‚ awkward‚ like exes
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epistemology. Whilst an array of scholars known as reformed epistemologists believe that it is rational for one to accept belief in God without the support of an argument or evidence‚ other philosophers known as evidentalists support classical foundationalism and dispute this belief. Reformed Epistemologists have argued that belief in God does not require the support of evidence or argument in order for it to be rational. In so doing‚ they reject
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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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infinite chain of non-repeating actions” They argue that although we are able to carry out justification at several steps‚ by using the following belief to justify the previous belief‚ we do not come close to an infinite chain of justifications. Foundationalism claims that there can be basic beliefs that do not need to appeal to other beliefs to be justified. This in turn can stop the problem of regress as the basic beliefs form the foundations from which all knowledge
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indication or “criterion” of truth. 1. Coherentism Versus Foundationalism 2. The Regress Problem 3. Traditional Accounts of Coherence 4. Other Accounts of Coherence 5. Justification by Coherence from Scratch 6. Probabilistic Measures of Coherence 7. Truth Conduciveness: the Analysis Debate 8. Impossibility Results 9. Conclusions Bibliography Academic Tools Other Internet Resources Related Entries 1. Coherentism Versus Foundationalism A central problem in epistemology is when we are justified
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