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Empiricism
- Knowledge comes primarily via sensory experience
- Emphasises the role of experience and evidence (especially sensory perception) in the formation of ideas.
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Rationalism
- Reason is the source of knowledge or justification
- Criteron for truth is intellectual and deductive
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Epistemology
- Nature and scope of knowledge
- 1. What is knowledge?
- 2. How is knowledge acquired?
- 3. How do we know what we know?
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Syntax
- Mechanism for arranging words into meaningful sentences
- (Cathy's definition:-Grammar)
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Episodic Memory
- Memory of autobiographical events that can be explicitely stated
- Has spatio-temporal features
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Modus Ponens
- Common rule of inference
- Valid, simple argument
- If p then q. p=true, therefore q must be true
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- Modus Tollens is related but opposite:
- If p then q. q=false, therefore p must be false
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Logical Validity
If the premises are true, then the conclusion must be true
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