Epistemology

What is rationalism?

• Reason is the foundation of knowledge - we create knowledge in our minds

• Sense data is the foundation of knowledge - we create knowledge from the data we gather from our senses

• The practice of questioning the reliability of our knowledge

• a view of the proper structure of one's knowledge or justified beliefs

What is empiricism?

• Reason is the foundation of knowledge, we create knowledge in our mind

• sense data is the foundation of knowledge - we create knowledge from the data we gather from our senses

• a view of the proper structure of one's knowledge or justified beliefs

• a practice questioning the reliability of our knowledge

What is skepticism

• the interpretation of sensory information, how we construct reality

• sense data is the foundation of knowledge

• the practice of questioning the reliability of our knowledge

• reason is the foundation of knowledge

What is perception?

• knowledge that comes after sense data, depends on empirical evidence

• knowledge that precedes sense data, derived from our ability to reason

• the practice of questioning the reliability of our knowledge

• interpretation of sensory information - how we construct reality

What is a priori

• knowledge that comes after sense data. Depends on evidence including science and aspects of personal knowledge

• knowledge that precedes sense data, derived from our ability to reason. is independent from experience

• the interpretation of sensory information, how we construct reality

• belief in the life cycle, reincarnation

what is a posteriori

• knowledge that comes after sense data. Knowledge that depends on evidence, including science and aspects of personal knowledge

• knowledge that precedes sense data, derived from our ability to reason. Independent from experience.

• practice of questioning the reliability of our knowledge

• reason is the foundation of knowledge, we create knowledge in our minds

What is qualia?

• the interpretation of sensory information

• knowledge that comes after sense data, depends on evidence

• knowledge that precedes sense data, independent from the experience

• private conscious experiences of sensation and perception

what is samsara?

• the practice of questioning the reliability of our knowledge

• belief in the life cycle - reincarnation

• an illusion where things appear to be present but are not what they seem

• the idea that things only exist when they are percieved

What is maya

• the interpretation of sensory information, how we construct reality

• an illusion where things appear to be present but are not what they seem

• belief in the life cycle - reincarnation

• the idea that sense data if the foundation of knowledge

What is the representative theory of perception?

• senes data is the foundation of knowledge

• reason is the foundation of knowledge

• things only exist when they are percieved, the existence of anything is dependent on perception.

• The world we see, is not the real world itself, but merely an illusion/representation of that world .