BUSI 1010U Chapter 4: Chapter 4. Evidence and Errors in Thinking.docx

• School: UOIT
• Department: Business
• Course: BUSI 1010U
• Professor: William Thurber

Document Summary

Chapter 4: knowledge evidence + errors in thinking. Knowledge- information which we believe to be true and for which we have justification or evidence. Our views of ourselves and the world around us are shaped by our understanding of the nature of truth and the ultimate sources of knowledge. Rationalists one who claims that most human knowledge comes through reason. Greek philosopher plato believed that there is an unchanging truth we can know through reason and that most of us confuse truth with worldly appearance. Empiricist one who believes that we discover truth primarily through our physical senses. Science is based on empiricism where we make direct observations of the world and come up with a hypothesis to explain these observations. German philosopher immanuel kant argued that how we experience reality is not simply a matter of pure reason (rationalism) or of using physical senses (empiricism) but depends on the structure of our minds.