Rationalism

What is reason/rationalism?

• Being able to understand something using your mind.

• Being able to understand something only with experience.

What is an a priori knowledge?

• knowledge known before sense experience

• knowledge known after sense experience

• unknown knowledge

• hard knowledge

What is a posteriori knowledge?

• Knowledge that is known intellectually

• knowledge?

• knowledge known before sense experience

• knowledge known after sense experience

What is a necessary truth?

• something that will always be false

• something that will always be true

• a truth that is true

• a truth that is false

According to Plato what are the things we remember when we seemingly learn?

• facts

• slightly accurate forms

• imperfect forms

• perfect forms

What is the name of the text from which Plato argues he demonstrates we remember and don't learn?

• Meno

• Don't Worry Darling

• Meno and Philosopher's Stone

• Meno's Drag Race

Which of these is NOT a necessary truth?

• a bachelor is an unmarried man

• Rishi Sunak is PM

• a bicycle has 2 wheels

• 2 + 2 = 4

What type of knowledge do we have inside of us?

• knowledge of God

• knowledge of dogs

• empirical

• innate

Which of these are not arguments against the slave-boy argument?

• the boy is reasoning in real-time

• the boy is being led by Socrates

• the boy has secretly been taking geometry lessons

• the realm of the perfect forms doesn't exist

What do empiricists claim?

• feelings = facts

• we gain knowledge by reflecting on rational knowledge

• we gain knowledge only from sense experience

• we gain no knowledge from sense experience