Epistemology
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EPISTEMOLOGY
* "episteme" - (Greek) means 'Knowledge'
* Clarify our ideas through linguistic analysis
* Identified with Methodology - true knowledge is that which can be verified or confirmed
* Concerns:
o deals with the various problems that arise concerning knowledge
What is the source/sources of knowledge?
Given the source, what can we know (type of knowledge)?
How are we to validate our knowledge claims?
o complex and specialized problems of knowledge, such as:
the distinction between belief and knowledge (on the religious plane the problem of faith and reason)
the nature of truth, or
the problems of perception
the external world
Meaning
other minds,
* dominated by two schools of thought/philosophical movement
Epistemological Issues Rationalism Empiricism
Source/s of Knowledge reason reason and experience
Type/s of Knowledge Formal Knowledge
Analytic
A priori Empirical Knowledge
Synthetic
A posteriori
Method of Verification Coherence Theory of Truth Correspondence Theory of Truth
Proponents * Rene Descartes
* Baruch Benedict de Spinoza
* Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz * David Hume
* George Berkeley
* John Locke
Types of Knowledge
Rationalism Empiricism
Formal Knowledge
- Mathematics; Geometry Empirical Knowledge
- Chemistry; Physics
Analytic
- A proposition whose predicate is contained in the subject.
"All bachelors are unmarried males."
- Is interchangeable, the meaning of the proposition will remain the same even if interchanged (e.g. bachelors to unmarried males and vice versa)
"All unmarried males are unmarried males."
- Will
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