PSYC 212 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Scotopic Vision, Vitreous Body, Parahippocampal Gyrus

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 212
• Professor: Mathieu Roy

Document Summary

Epistemology how can we know the world? philosopher is to each people what these ideal forms are. Plato(cid:495)s allegory of the cave the only way we know the world is through reason, not our senses, because they are unreliable. What we perceive is only the shadow of other things, forms we don(cid:495)t have access to. Plato was a rationalist: we can(cid:495)t trust our senses at all; what matters is the realm of (cid:494)ideal forms(cid:495) that we can. Anamnesis: our immortal souls are made of leftovers of a greater (cid:494)cosmos-soul(cid:495) that had universal recover this knowledge by trying to (cid:494)remember(cid:495) what we (cid:494)forgot(cid:495), because knowing something is knowledge. We lost this knowledge when our souls were incarnated in our imperfect bodies. Nativism/innatism: we are born already knowing the world. remembering what we already know. only know using our reason. Empiricism: knowledge is obtained by means of perceptual experiences.