N5 KD

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

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

'Knowing ____'.

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

'Knowing ___'.

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.

• belief

• true

• undoubtable

• individually sufficient and jointly necessary

• innate

• justified

• individually necessary and jointly sufficient

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

• Descartes

• Locke

• Hume

• Leibniz

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

• There are innate ideas

• The mind at birth is like a block of marble

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

• There are NO innate ideas

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

• The mind at birth is like a blank slate

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

• We gain knowledge as we see and experience