Rationalism
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- Created on: 19-11-12 14:13
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- Rationalism
- Plato
- Innate capacity to reason for example mathematics.
- The boy uses reason to work out the problem, however he has no education, so the ability to reason must be innate.
- Innate capacity to reason for example mathematics.
- A priori - before experience.
- Deductive arguments - Socrates example.
- Good - cannot doubt the logic of the conclusion.
- Bad - doesn't give us any new information.
- Analytic - true by definition - "an unmarried man is a bachelor" - becomes a tautology.
- The ultimate source of knowledge is reason.
- Maths is commonly used in Rationalism.
- We can distrust our senses, so how can they be used as a foundation of knowledge?
- Innate ideas can be a source of knowledge, these ideas are present in the mind from birth and give us knowledge about the world.
- Like a spider - generating knowledge from within, as it spins its web with no external material.
- Descartes - Cogito Ergo Sum - I think therefore I am.
- Although it is solid, it cannot prove anything else exists.
- Says nothing about what 'I' is, apart from a thinking thing.
- Innate idea of God and Morality.
- Necessary truths
- True in all possible worlds, or all possible situations. We cannot imagine it being otherwise. 2 +2 = 4 will always be.
- Plato
- Innate capacity to reason for example mathematics.
- The boy uses reason to work out the problem, however he has no education, so the ability to reason must be innate.
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