Study Guide: Lesson 10 What is Epistemology? & What is Knowledge? Lesson Overview With this lesson‚ we begin a new unit on epistemology‚ which is the philosophical study of knowledge claims. In this first lesson on epistemology‚ Dew and Foreman discuss some of the basic issues raised in the study of epistemology and then discuss the nature of knowledge itself. They consider questions such as‚ “What do we mean when we say we know something?” “What exactly is knowledge? Tasks View and take notes
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category of individuals like individual persons‚ individual objects‚ individual animals‚ or various other individual materials. “What the austere nominalist wants to claim is that an ontology of concrete particulars provides the resources for dealing with all the phenomena the metaphysical realist claims presuppose an ontology of multiply exemplifiable entities” (Loux 53). The austere nominalist refutes the realist claim that universals are necessary and serve as handling the phenomena of attribute agreement
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TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1: Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………………….. 2 2: What is Irrationalism?............................................................................. 2 3: Origins of Irrationalism……………………………………………………………………………. 2 3.1: The Limits of Rationalism……………………………………………………………………… 2 3.2: The Religious Issue……………………………………………………………………………….. 3 4: Historical Synopsis…………………………………………………………………………………… 3 4.1: Ancient Greek Era………………………………………………………………………………… 4 4.2: Medieval Mysticism……………………………………………………………………………
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G EOGRAPHY AND HUMANISM John Pickles ISSN 0306-6142 ISBN 0 86094 220 1 © John Pickles Published by Geo Books‚ Norwich Printed by W.H. Hutchins & Sons‚ Norwich CATMOG - Concepts and Techniques in Modern Geography CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES IN MODERN GEOGRAPHY No. 44 GEOGRAPHY AND HUMANISM by John Pickles (West Virginia University) EDITOR ’S NOTE PREFACE NOTE ON THE USE OF THE GLOSSARY I INTRODUCTION (i) (ii) (iii) II (i) (ii) (i) (ii) IV (i) (ii) V (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) VI (1) (ii) (iii) (iv)
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his Metaphysics * Philosophical inquiry into the nature of truth is called epistemology * The study of epistemology attempts to describe and explain the nature of knowledge and truth‚ and whether it is possible to achieve genuine knowledge or perceive an ultimate truth KEY TERMS Metaphysics – most generally‚ the philosophical investigation of the nature‚ constitution‚ and structure of reality Epistemology – the study of the nature of knowledge and justificaiton Reality Is the Eternal
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Company posted quarterly revenue of $35.0 billion and quarterly net profit of $8.8 billion‚ or $9.32 per diluted share Apple Theories of the Modernist Modernism is a method of organization study - The ontology of the modernist assumes that there is scientific prove for everything and their epistemology of and belief of truth is based on testing and research. (Hatch and Cunliffe‚ 2006) Weber (2009) presents to us that modernist
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Throughout history people had their media to communicate about matters of public interest. Therefore today mass communication i.e. newspapers‚ magazines‚ journals‚ radio‚ television‚ film‚ video and many more are not new. The history of mass communication however evolved over time where by each culture was dominant during a certain period of time as discussed below. The oral communication culture was dominant during the pre-literate or pre-industrial time‚ they used the spoken word for communication
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Sociologists study society as a ’social science’ however the status of sociology as a science is easily questionable when compared to how acknowledged scientists study the natural world. In order to determine whether or not sociology can be accepted as a true science it is useful to make comparisons between the studies performed by both sociologists and natural scientists on their subjects of society and the natural world respectively. Sociology can be considered a science as it involve systematic
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Topic: State the main points of Marcuse ’s critique of Sartre‚ and consider the grounds on which Sartre might defend himself. Could Sartre succeed? Herbert Marcuse ’s critique of Sartre in Existentialism: Remarks on Jean-Paul Sartre ’sL ’Etre et le Neant is based on the claim that Sartre ’s method is ontologically impure‚ in that its account of the nature of consciousness is in fact abstracted from historical factors. This criticism was not specific to Sartre. Marcuse ’s approach is rooted firmly
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John Locke distinguished‚ in his Essay‚ “real essence” from “nominal essence.” Nominal essence‚ according to Locke‚ is the “abstract Idea to which the Name is annexed (III.vi.2).” Thus‚ the nominal essence of the name ‘gold’‚ Locke said‚ “is that complex Idea the word Gold stands for‚ let it be‚ for instance‚ a Body yellow‚ of a certain weight‚ malleable‚ fusible‚ and fixed.” In contrast‚ the real essence of gold is “the constitution of the insensible parts of that Body‚ on which those Qualities
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