N5 KD

What is the name for the knowledge we are thought to be born with?

(a)  

What does the N5 Philosophy course call 'propositional' knowledge?

'Knowing (a)   '.

What does the N5 Philosophy course call the type of knowledge that includes someone's ability to do a cartwheel?

'Knowing (a)   '.

The belief that knowledge, either of some sorts or all sorts, is ​ (a)   is called scepticism.

The name given to the belief that all knowledge of the depends on ​ (b)   is called empiricism.

The belief that at least some knowledge of the world can be gained using ​ (c)   and/or innate ideas is called rationalism.

• unattainable
• sense experience
• reason
• intuition
• guesswork
• hearsay
• Descartes

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Part of Plato's definition of knowledge.

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(b) Not part of Plato's definition.

• innate

• justified

• undoubtable

• individually sufficient and jointly necessary

• individually necessary and jointly sufficient

• belief

• true

Sceptics can use the infinite regress argument to justify their position.

Which part of Plato's definition does the infinite regress argument focus upon?

• justification

• truth

• belief

• the form of the good

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Rationalists

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(b) Empiricists

• Leibniz

• Hume

• Locke

• Descartes

Which of the following is one if the reasons that John Locke rejects innate ideas?

• He thinks that if they existed there would be some things all humans would agree on.

• He doesn't believe that there is a God to be the source of these ideas.

• He thinks that mathematics is a fearfully dull science.

• He worried that innate ideas might pave the way for new and strange forms of government.

Which of the following were suggested by Leibniz to be innate knowledge?

• The claim that something can't exist and not exist at the same time.

• The belief that the sun will rise tomorrow morning.

• The claim that an effect must be at least as real as a cause.

• Realising that ice melts at zero degrees Celsius.

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Locke

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(b) Leibniz

• Our knowledge at the end of our lives is how our innate ideas have shaped our experiences

• We gain knowledge as we see and experience

• The veins in the marble are involved in the final shape of the sculpture.

• The mind at birth is like a blank slate

• There are innate ideas

• The mind at birth is like a block of marble

• Our knowledge at the end of our lives is what we have experienced.

• There are NO innate ideas