Journal #2 In class we talked about the sub-disciplines of epistemology. There are three which are empiricism‚ rationalism and skepticism. Out of these three I feel that I‚ myself am an empiricist. I feel this because everything I have learned in my short life up to this point has been through some type of experience in my life involving one or more of the five senses. I was trying to think of a case where I may have knowledge of something without someone telling me or showing me and I couldn’t
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Dating as far back as the 17th and 18th century‚ the dispute between rationalism and empiricism has long been the opposing philosophies of René Descartes and John Locke. Descartes was a rationalist who believed in innate ideas‚ solid reasoning‚ and the ability of deduction. In contrast‚ Locke was an empiricist that believed in sensory perception‚ induction‚ and attaining knowledge through experience which he argued was our only source of ideas. This brings us to the prompt; describe the difference
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Hume’s Life David Hume was the son of a minor Scottish landowner. His family wanted him to become a lawyer‚ but he felt an "insurmountable resistance to everything but philosophy and learning". Mr. Hume attended Edinburgh University‚ and in 1734 he moved to a French town called La Fleche to pursue philosophy. He later returned to Britain and began his literary career. As Hume built up his reputation‚ he gained more and more political power. Hume’s Philosophy HUME’S WRITINGS In 1742‚ Hume wrote
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knowledge including perception conflict with the ideal behind rationalism as a way of knowing. Perception has a major strength as a way of knowing because we can physically experience the emotion and the occurrence. This way of knowing is known as Empiricism. Empiricists argue that the ultimate source of knowledge is experience. However this to has its own limits because the question “how do you know that that actually happened?” can be asked. In Conclusion‚ reason and perception are dependent one
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Andrea D. Lopez SMC 1311 May 8‚ 2013 Final Exam 1) What is justice according to Plato? How does Plato’s theory of the soul reflect his understanding of justice? Plato was a famous philosopher and a mathematician who lived from 429 to 374 B.C. Plato was the founder of The Academy of Athens and with the knowledge he gained from his professor‚ Socrates‚ he continued to spread his teachings to the youth. In the book‚ Republic‚ Plato defines justice as harmony with one self. If a person is content
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understandings are two sides to the same coin according to Immanuel Kant. In Kant’s writing of Critique of Pure Reason he explains how both of these perspectives are intertwined and work together to as the foundations to forming human knowledge. To Kant empiricism and rationalism both play an important part to human beings acquiring knowledge. In the essay below‚ there will be a brief history on who Immanuel Kant was and a more detailed explanation of both Descartes’ and Locke’s comprehension of the foundations
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methods in which information is learned. Of these methods‚ there are two that are most widely accepted. Rationalism and empiricism are also the most widely debated methods of knowledge. Rationalism claims that a priori processes and intuition gain knowledge. Rationalism claims that knowledge is innate; but that it varies among humans. At the other end of the spectrum‚ empiricism claims that knowledge is gained largely by experience‚ observation‚ and sensory perception. René Descartes and John Locke
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2. Aristotle believed that light came into eyes 3. al-Haytham had friends stare at the sun and observed their newfound blindness 1. set-up and performed an experiment 5. The empirical method 1. Inductive reasoning‚ John Locke (1632-1704) 1. Empiricism 1. From the individual to the universal 2. E.g. Apples fall to the ground; therefore there is a universal force that pulls things to Earth. 2. Locke’s view of the mind 1. The mid in its primeval state is a "white Paper‚ void of all Characters
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they are born‚ are able to acquire language quickly and with apparent ease‚ and many ideas have been put forward to examine and understand the processes that lie behind the acquisition of language. The main theories include those of Nativism and Empiricism. Nativism is the theoretical position which argues that language is acquired so quickly as the result of a built in‚ innate mechanism‚ that makes infants predisposed to learning language (Harris‚ 2006). The opposing Empiricist position on the other
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At the trial of Socrates in Athens‚ 399 BC‚ Socrates has already been found guilty of impiety and corrupting the young men of Athens. In other words‚ he has criticized the government‚ and the leaders don’t like it. There is no prescribed sentence for these crimes. Instead‚ there is now a penalty phase of the trial and Socrates has to propose his own sentence. Then court decides between Socrates’ proposal and that of the prosecutor‚ which is death. The court probably would have expected him to propose
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