Philosophy Final MDC (Terms for Dr. Partain's Philosophy Final) New Update 2024

Who believed that the mind judges but doesn't perceive? - ANS-Anton Wilheim Amo What did Amo define sensation as? - ANS-The result of sensory organs obstructing maternal justice Define "epistemology." - ANS-the study of the nature of knowledge What are the two types of epistemology? - ANS-rationalism & empiricism What is rationalism? - ANS-method of acquiring knowledge based on logic and reason What is empiricism? - ANS-method of acquiring knowledge based on observation, inquiry, and experience What is "epistemological idealism"? - ANS-an epistemology which holds that though matter exists it is not directly knowable but only knowable indirectly through the mediation of the mind What is the hallmark of modern philosophy? - ANS-subjectivity What is "foundationalism"? - ANS-theory that our knowledge claims must be based on basic true beliefs and that these basic believes provide a foundation for all knowledge What is "dualism"? - ANS-all real objects are either physical or nonphysical What is "reductive materialism"? - ANS-only the material world is truly real, and that all processes and realities observed in the universe can be explained by reducing them down to their most basic scientific components What we seem to be perceiving? - ANS-we are directly aware of mere brain images What are we perceiving according to Hobbes? - ANS-phantasms