Definitions for Unit 1: Epistemology

A set of definitions for all technical philosophical language in AQA AS Epistemology.

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I H X I T H Y I B A J L Y A L X D N C D Y
Q N W R P V V H I P Y P L Q U Q N P G I E
J O K E W Q E X N O V F N A F D U P N I V
V I W W F F L F D S U R T I K W S H S M R
T T H M M L C A I T L D J N A H K Y V W N
B I U I S P R P R E C W F T B T T S O A Y
D D O N I A I R E R C P F A I S R I H S Q
A N G D T D C I C I L X O N L M D C P G C
N O T I A D N O T O L G R C I J G A L H R
E C O N N H A R R R E Q A E T R D L K N S
T Y U D N A I I E I K N W K Y J R O K O G
Q R G E I L S K A K D C A N K N B B C N V
Y A R P T Q E N L N O M M O N R Q J T X O
T S O E P L T O I O M K U W O Q B E B B G
U S F N E A R W S W O D G L W E E C G U A
N E V D C P A L M L J H Y E L Q L T M D I
H C V E N T C E L E F S O D E H G S D Y H
J E G N O N I D X D T K W G D T B L Q K Q
S N V T C N J G X G E A U E G G B E N B Q
W D M A C N T E C E B X O P E G J C W M W
J R B X T A J L P C I J R N Y F P L U B L

Clues

  • 'Know-how'. Animals can have this. Cannot be expressed through language. (7, 9)
  • 'Knowing of'. Cannot be expressed through language. Some consider it base of all empirical knowledge. (10, 9)
  • A circular flaw in Descartes' ontological argument. He cannot rely on clear and disinct ideas before proving the existence of God, yet cannot prove the existence of God without relying on clear and distinct ideas. (9, 6)
  • Not dependent on any mind for existence nor definiton; existing in the external world. (4, 11)
  • objects which and mind-independent; existing in the external world; made of physical matter. (8, 7)
  • One without which a proposition cannot be true. E.g a man must be unmarried in order to be a bachelor. (9, 9)
  • Propositional knowledge aquired/justifiable indepenently of experience. Necesssarily true or false. (1, 6, 9)
  • Propositional knowledge aquired/justifiable through sense experience. Contingently true or false (1, 10, 9)
  • The claim that some concepts are innate to people; they are deduced through reason rather than derived from experience (7, 8)
  • Theory of perception claiming we have only indirect acess to the external world; We percive mind-independent objects indirectly, via sense data which are caused by & represent physical objects. (8, 7)

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