PHIL 2540 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Platonic Realism, Nominalism, Epistemology
5 Oct 2016
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Rationalism: the theory that reason rather than experience is the foundation of certainty in knowledge. Empiricism: the theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience. Epistemologist, metaphysics, platonic realism: the cave ignorance analogy, senses blind us from truth (with capitol t) Plato"s phaedo: the soul survives the death of the body which means a person is essentially an immaterial soul. The fact that we have knowledge is due to the fact that the soul would learn while not in the body during quasi-haven: the soul grants us knowledge. Descartes cogito: the person i am is pure ego that transcends physical reality. It"s persistence grants me unity of multiple conscious states. Cogito: this pure eye does not exist in anything material, this grants my personhood. Ockham"s razor: if it makes less assumptions it is better to work with (unlike descartes we do away with the soul since we don"t even know that we experience it)
