Sources of Knowledge

We can use intuition and deduction to discover knowledge

• Innatism
• Empiricism
• Rationalism
• Idealism

We are born knowing nothing, our mind is a blank slate ("Tabula Rasa") at birth

• Innatism
• Empiricism
• Rationalism
• Idealism

Only things we can experience are true

• Innatism

• Empiricism

• Idealism

We are born knowing some things

• Innatism

• Empiricism

• Idealism

We aquire knowledge via reasoning

• Rationalism
• Empiricism
• Innatism
• Idealism

If a tree falls but no one hears it, it doesn't make a sound. You have to experience it to be true

• Innatism
• Empiricism
• Rationalism
• Idealism

Maths, Logic & Geometry truths can be worked out, no matter what our experiences/background

• Innatism
• Empiricism
• Rationalism
• Idealism

The view that reason is the ultimate source of knowledge

• Rationalism
• Empiricism
• Innatism
• Idealism

Ideas are with us all along (either supernatural e.g. God putting ideas into us or evolutionary instincts)

• Rationalism
• Empiricism
• Innatism
• Idealism

This argues that JTB (justified true belief) is not sufficient for knowledge and the following is needed in addition…

• Truth-Tracking
• Empiricism
• Innatism
• Idealism