Rationalism v Empiricism pt. 1

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Clues

  • Associated with rationalism. We are born with these ideas prior to experience. E.g. morality, numbers, universal concepts, language, causation and the idea of God. (6, 5)
  • David Hume, John Locke, J S Mill, George Berkeley. (11)
  • Descartes, Leibniz, Plato, Francis Hutcheson, Kant, Spinoza. (12)
  • Latin for 'blank slate'. Empiricist view that contradicts innate ideas put forward by Locke. We are born kowing nothing. *An Essay Concerning Human Understanding* (6, 4)
  • Simple ideas consist of a single element e.g. the colour red, the smell of tea, the sound of a trumpet. Simple ideas derive from simple impressions. (6, 12)
  • The ultimate source of knowledge is reason and logic. Mathematics is a template to the theory. The knowedge is certain, logical, and endured for all time. A priori knowedge. (11)
  • Various simple ideas merged together e.g. a gold mountain, a unicorn. (7, 13)
  • What we are able to think about when we are not directly perceiving something. E.g. I can imagine sunlight and recognise it when I see it despite not currently experiencing it. (8)
  • What we directly take in through our senses e.g. sunlight, the taste of tea. (5, 11)

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