Epistemology 13 Limits of K

Knowledge is acquired through the senses

• Rationalism

• Empiricism

Knowledge is acquired through logic or reason

• Rationalism

• Empiricism

synthetic propositions are...

• ... necessarily true, based on A Priori knowledge

• ...contingently true, based on A Posteriori knowledge

analytic propositions are...

• ...contingently true, based on A Posteriori knowledge

• ...necessarily true, based on A Priori knowledge

Hume's __________ separates propositions into matters of fact and relations of ideas

Descartes is attempting to establish...

• a synthetic truth based on A Posteriori knowledge

• a synthetic truth based on A Priori knowledge

• an analytic truth based on A Posteriori knowledge

• an analytic truth based on A Priori knowledge

why does Descartes embark on his method of doubt?

• to establish what is possible to know with certainty

• to prove the existence of God

• to prove the existence of himself

• to prove the existence of the external world

what does Descartes' Cogito argument demonstrate?

• the existence of an external world

• the existence of God

• the existence of himself as a thinking thing

Where does our clear and distinct idea of God come from?

• an experience of God

• God (trademark argument)

• An evil demon

What is the Brain in a Vat thought experiment illustating?

• Plato's Analogy of the Cave

• Descartes' Evil Demon

• Leibniz's block of marble

• Russell's cat