[POL208Y1] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 24 pages long Study Guide!
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Study guide: phl 210 lecture 1 september 13, 2016. Revelation and church were the ultimate sources of knowledge. 1533 copernican revolution: marked beginning of scientific revolution, laws of physics needed to change, theories developed by human beings that are based on empirical evidence. Challenge to the church and traditional method of acquiring knowledge. Descartes goal: make legitimate human discovery and scientific knowledge and also make it consistent with belief in god wants to accept and believe in both views: they are not mutually exclusive. Seen to a certain extent in leibniz. L: god: problem with rationalists: how do we know that our innate ideas correspond to the world that we live in, there must be something connection our ideas of the world. Attempt to make the mind correspond to the world. Problem: skepticism how do i know the world is the way it is.
