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Epistomology: The Study of Knowledge - Coggle Diagram
Epistomology: The Study of Knowledge
What is knowledge?
Propositional Knowledge
Conditions for propositional knowledge
You must believe it to be true
Knowledge must be true and supported by reason
Cognitive relativism: belief determines knowledge
Subjective relativism: truth depends on what an individual believes to be true
Cultural relativism: truth depends on what a culture believes to be true
Does not allow for someone to believe something false
Allows something to be both true and not true
It must be true
There must be a reason to hold the beleif
How do we know something?
Rationalism: Knowledge comes from reason. It is a priori and can be found using logic
Descartes was a rationalist. He is distrustful of sense data as a source of knowledge and believes we therefore have no knowledge of the outside world.
Kant was a rationalist,believed our minds impose order onto sense data. This allows us to know a prior that there is connections between external objects, like cause and effect and space and time.
Empiricism: Knowledge comes from experience. It is a posteriori and comes from the senses.
Hume was an empiricist. He believed because experience supervenes knowledge that all knowledge is derived from the senses. Sense data is sufficient to conform the assistance of external objects but not the relationship between them.
Natural law cannot be proven, like cause and effect.
Locke was also an empiricist. He believed because sense data can confirm the assistance of external objects, we do have knowledge of them.
Subjective idealism: All that exists are minds and their ideas.
Berkeley was a subjective idealist. He believed sense data could not confirm the existence of external objects. He believed external objects were logically impossible because we cannot conceive of them being unconceivable.