Exam 5: The Sources of Knowledge

Descartes' methodological point of departure was

Who offered a view now termed transcendental idealism?

claimed that both rationalists and empiricists take partial notions for real parts.

Who claimed that the claim that the world must conform to the mind was a kind of Copernican revolution in knowledge?

According to Kant, statements that give us information about the world are

Descartes argued that human beings are born with ideas of the three fundamental kinds of things in the universe:

Whose theories were accepted by Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf?

According to Locke's analysis, a primary quality of an apple might be

is the view that only I exist and that everything else is just a creation of my subjective consciousness.

Descartes' methodological departure is an attitude of and skepticism.

The empricist believes that

Who did not rely on God to save him from skepticism?

What are the problems faced by inductionism? Do you believe that they can be solved? Explain your answer.

Descartes believed that all of our knowledge was derived from our senses.

In what way does Descartes' rationalism require the existence of a benevolent God? Do you believe that Descartes has successfully established the existence of this God, or do you think that his arguments for God's existence are circular, resting as they do on his "clear and distinct" perceptions whose veridicality seems to be given by God's benevolence?

Berkeley was an empiricist.

What philosopher argued that the language of each culture contains the basic categories and structures that the people of that culture use to understand and organize their experience?

Berkeley was an atheist.

Anne Conway was an empiricist.

Kant claims that the reality we perceive is one that our own reason constructs. Does this make him a subjectivist, or not? Explain your answer.