Epistemology 11 Innatism

According to empiricism, where does all knowledge come from?

• Intuition and deduction

• Perceptual experience

• Innate knowledge

• Logical contradiction

What is the definition of a posteriori knowledge?

• Knowledge that can be acquired without experience of the external world

• Knowledge that can only be acquired from experience of the external world

• Knowledge that can be acquired through intuition and deduction

• Knowledge that can be acquired through logical contradiction

From Plato's Allegory of the Cave, what represents an earthly human existence without philosophical contemplation?

• The sunlight outside the cave.

• The prisoners chained inside the cave.

• The shadows on the wall of the cave.

• The prisoner who escapes the cave.

Which of the following is the odd one out?

• Empirical

• A posteriori

• Synthetic

• Analytic

Which of the following is the odd one out?

• Reason

• A priori

• Innate

• Experience

What is the main focus of rationalism in epistemology?

• Knowledge derived from sensory experience

• Knowledge derived from logical reasoning

• Knowledge derived from empirical evidence

• Knowledge derived from scientific experimentation

Which philosopher is most closely associated with the concept of 'tabula rasa'?

• Immanuel Kant

• John Locke

• René Descartes

• David Hume

According to Leibniz, what type of knowledge is innate?

• necessary truths

• contingent truths

What example did Leibniz give to describe the innate nature of our knowledge?

• a block of marble

• a stick bent in water

• a tree falling in a forest

synthetic propositions are...

• ... necessarily true, based on A Priori knowledge

• ...contingently true, based on A Posteriori knowledge