LING 475 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Empirical Evidence, Intuit, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
2 Mar 2020
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Empiricism & rationalism = branches of philosophy: define: to study the nature, sources and limits of knowledge. Rationalism: define: the belief that opinions/ actions should be based on reason and or though rather than emotional responses. To see" is as true in such a way as to form a true: deduction: we get the conclusions from premises through valid arguments. The conclusion must be true if premises are true. Intuition & deduction provides us with knowledge a priori" knowledge is gained independently through experience. Innate knowledge thesis: to have knowledge of some truths in a particular subject area, as part of our rational nature: asserts the existence of knowledge gained a priori", independently of experience. Is not learned through either sense-experience of intuition or deduction: offers our rational nature, the experiences do not provide us with knowledge itself, has in some way been with us all along.
