2. Rationalists
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Plato: Theory of Innate
Ideas
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Descartes: Systematic
doubt of everything; Leads
to“Cogito argument”
•
“I think, therefore I am”-“Cogito ergo sum”
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3. Empiricists
•
Aristotle: Nothing is
know that is not first
experienced through the
senses
•
Locke “Tabula Rasa”; the
“blank slate” sensation
and impression
•
Hume: problem of
causality
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6. 1. Refutes Hume and causality; awoke him from a
“dogmatic slumber”
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7. 1. Refutes Hume and causality; awoke him from a
“dogmatic slumber”
2. Believed in both a priori and a posteriori knowledge
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8. 1. Refutes Hume and causality; awoke him from a
“dogmatic slumber”
2. Believed in both a priori and a posteriori knowledge
3. Some things we know through reason, causality for
example; our human mind brings it to the world
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9. 1. Refutes Hume and causality; awoke him from a
“dogmatic slumber”
2. Believed in both a priori and a posteriori knowledge
3. Some things we know through reason, causality for
example; our human mind brings it to the world
as well concept of space and time
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10. 1. Refutes Hume and causality; awoke him from a
“dogmatic slumber”
2. Believed in both a priori and a posteriori knowledge
3. Some things we know through reason, causality for
example; our human mind brings it to the world
as well concept of space and time
4. We have to experience the world the way we do
because that is the way we are
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11. 1. Refutes Hume and causality; awoke him from a
“dogmatic slumber”
2. Believed in both a priori and a posteriori knowledge
3. Some things we know through reason, causality for
example; our human mind brings it to the world
as well concept of space and time
4. We have to experience the world the way we do
because that is the way we are
5. External world could be different from the way we
perceive it but that has to be accepted.
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12. 1. Refutes Hume and causality; awoke him from a
“dogmatic slumber”
2. Believed in both a priori and a posteriori knowledge
3. Some things we know through reason, causality for
example; our human mind brings it to the world
as well concept of space and time
4. We have to experience the world the way we do
because that is the way we are
5. External world could be different from the way we
perceive it but that has to be accepted.
6. Allowed us to get out of being strict rationalists or
strict empiricists.
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