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Flashcards by Tjiye Linton, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Tjiye Linton
over 11 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Ideas | The mental image of an object that we gain by having a sense impression of it. These can be simple___, such as colour, a smell or taste, or complex____, such as a cat, a tree or a green can |
| Descartes | A Rationalist philosopher who believed he could prove his own and God's existence without experience. |
| David Hume | An Empiricist philosopher from the 18th century who believed that we can only know things through experience |
| Empiricism | The philosophical view that all knowledge comes from experience. Philosopher with this view believe we are born with a 'Tabula Rasa' and no 'innate knowledge' |
| Experience | the act of having a sense impression and gaining knowledge of the external world. |
| ' All ideas come from experience' | the first claim that Empiricists make which means that all the ideas about the world that I have have been caused by a direct or indirect experience of the world. |
| ' All knowledge is justified by experience' | the second claim that Empiricists make and means I can link all of my knowledge about the world back to either a direct experience of the world or an indirect experience of it. |
| Tabula Rasa | This term can be translated as 'Blank Slate' and means that we are born knowing nothing i.e. with no innate knowledge. |
| Sense Impression | The experiences that objects in the world cause us to have through our 5 senses. |
| John Locke | An Empiricist who tried to show that humans do not have innate knowledge by defining it as 'knowledge we have and are aware of from birth' which is basically impossible |
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