WorksheetsN5 K&D Hinge 1
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 8mins
Empiricists believe that...
... knowledge is based on scientific method and using your intuition.
... knowledge is based only on perceptions and tendency to believe some innate ideas.
... knowledge is gained through many different kinds of experience, but we are not born with any.
... knowledge achieved through deduction from basic rational principles is the most valuable.
... knowledge can be learned without any kind of experience, purely through intuition and deduction.
Which of these statements expresses foundationalism?
Knowledge is power that is absolutely certain.
Only indubitable knowledge is justified.
Some knowledge is self-authenticating or self-evident and justifies the rest of our knowledge.
It's impossible to know if the outside world exists because we might be dreaming.
Knowledge is created by combining ideas together in imagination.
In the blank slate metaphor, the writing on the slate represents...
The mind
Experience
Knowledge
Innate ideas
Learning
"I believe that we are born predisposed to understand the world in particular ways. I am..."
a rationalist
an empiricist
a sceptic
a utilitarian
an absolutist
In the veined block of marble analogy, the finished statue represents...
The mind
Experience
Knowledge
Innate ideas
Learning
Rationalists believe that...
... knowledge is based on scientific method and using your intuition.
... knowledge is based only on perceptions and memory.
... knowledge is gained through many different kinds of experience, but we are not born with any.
... knowledge achieved through perception and experience is the most valuable.
... knowledge can be established through intuition and deduction from innate ideas.
"I believe that humans acquire knowledge after birth through experiences. I am..."
a rationalist
an empiricist
a sceptic
a utilitarian
an absolutist
Foundationalism is a response to...
empiricist arguments
rationalist arguments
sceptical arguments
utilitarian arguments
absolutist arguments
