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Created on: 13-04-21 14:32

Define 'a priori'

Knowledge which is not dependent on experience, can be known 'prior' to experience e.g. triangles have three side

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Define 'a posteriori'

Knowledge which is dependent on sense experience, can only be known after sense experience.

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Define 'rationalism'

The view that the primary source of knowledge is reason, in the strictest sense, a priori reason.

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Define 'empiricism'

The idea that observations through our senses lead us to a better understanding of the world.

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Define 'reason'

Using logical thought in order to reach conclusions.

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Who was Socrates?
Give 3 points,

- often considered to be the founder of Western philosophy.
- Plato was his student and was greatly influenced by him.
- he used questions to help clarify concepts and explain his philosophy. He used questioning to expose the flaws in other people's think

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Why was Socrates arrested?

- was not popular among the authorities, and was arrested with not believing in the Greek Gods and corrupting the young.
- he was sentenced to death and drank the hemlock pill, as he did not want to back down from his beliefs.
- he was accused of mocking

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How did Socrates's death affect Plato?

- Plato was about 30 and saw his death as greatly unjust.
- as a result he became very anti-democratic, as he did not believe the average person was capable of making reasonable decisions.
-he became a teacher and founded an academy after writing many boo

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What did Plato believe was true about everything in the world?

-he believed everything in this world was constantly changing.
-many are imperceptible over time.

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Why did Plato see this as a problem?

- he felt that he would never see the truth through his lifetime about the world we all live in.
-he knew that as soon as something we thought we understood was there, it would just change.

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What does Plato mean by 'forms'?

- the name Plato gives to ideal concepts that exist in reality.
- the ideals that are unchanging, perfect and external concepts.

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What does Plato believe is actually the real world?

- he argued that the world was a world of appearance only. It is made

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