Epistemology

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Which word describe Descartes' Meditation
Rationalist
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In Descartes meditation which possibility does he discuss
An evil demon,Dreaming, God gave illusion, only simple ideas,
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What does Descartes initially doubt in his meditation
His senses
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Descartes cannot be sure if he is not...
Dreaming
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What does state after his main 2 possibility
The cogito
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What is the basic belief of Realism
That things exists independent of the mind
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The properties such as size, shape, colour and taste are experienced through...
Direct (naive) realism
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According to direct realism we see things as...
They really are
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According to direct realism, when do we not observe object they...
STILL EXISTS
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Who came up with a criticism of direct realism based on the example of a table
Betrand Russell
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The criticism of direct realism is based on different viewing/ sensing of object is called
Perceptual Variation
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Accoding to Russell, sense data is defined as
What we are directly aware of
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What are the criticism of realism
Illusion, hallucination and time lag
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What is the criticism of realism by John Locke
Casual
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The Casual Realism is
The minute processes that underlie our perception convey information to us indirectly
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Who is usually defined as a indirect realist
John Locke
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What is the definition of primary qualities
Properties that are thought to exist independent of our minds (SIZE AND SHAPE)
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Primary properties...
Are independent of our minds
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Leibniz argues that there must be a resemblance between our sensation and...
What caused them
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Locke argues that secondary qualities are...
Such qualities which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves
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Difficulties that indirect realism faces
The Veil of Perception, Cartesian scepticism about the external world
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Doubting that anything of the external world can be known to be true is called
Solipisism
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Russell's defence of indirect realism is that the external world is the best...
Hypothesis
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Who is the founder of idealism
George Berkeley
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Idealism is the theory of knowledge that..
physical objects do not exist independently of the mind but are collection of ideas
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Berkeley's FIRST argument of idealism
Due to the ' Veil of Perception', an object's existence is dependent on it being perceived
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What is Berkeley denying
That objects have an existence independent of perception
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According to Berkeley, can we conceive an object with no other qualities than primary
NO
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According to Berkeley's Master Argument, if you try to think of a tree which exists independently of any mind...
You think of it so it exists in the mind
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Problems with Berkeley's idealism
Hallucination, the continued existence of things
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Berkeley's response as to why things seem to continue to exists is...
GOD
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According to Berkeley, is time public or private
PRIVATE (mind independent)
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How many meditation did Descartes write
6
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