COG SCI 190 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Modus Tollens, Modus Ponens, First-Order Logic

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Lecture 1 innate: rationalist: knowledge comes partly from reason, some aspects of which may be innate, plato, leibniz, boole, frege, turing, chomsky, empiricist: neither principles nor ideas are innate. Knowledge comes from experience: aristotle, locke, skinner, plato (rationalist) teacher of aristotle (empiricist, aristotle (empiricist, blank slate/ tabula rasa, plato (rationalist, innate knowledge, we know things we could not have learned. So the soul must have understood them for all time. (meno-play we read for hw with the squares: like the stingray we have made him numb, learning is remembering, plato"s problem: poverty of stimulus= limited experience. Locke (empiricist: says no to innate knowledge, neither principles nor ideas are innate. , blank slate similar to aristotle- same idea, updated technology, two sorts of experience. Reflection (the operations of our mind: children acquire their knowledge gradually by degrees. Beasts are solely empirical: block of marble with veins. Leibniz: veins in the marble: two strong positions with different answers.