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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?

A) Immanuel Kant
B) Wilhelm von Humboldt
C) Francis Bacon
D) John Stuart Mill

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The empricist believes that

A) the only source of genuine knowledge is sense experience.
B) apart from experience, reason is an unreliable and inadequate route to knowledge.
C) there is no evidence of innate ideas within the mind.
D) all of these choices

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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?

Critical realists hold that only ____________________ ____________________ is present in the consciousness of objects.

Who was a Romantic philosopher?

Shankara developed the idea of "sublation".

"All triangles have three sides" is an example of a(n) ____ statement.

The critical realists rejected Locke's epistemology.

What philosopher argued that scientific claims or hypotheses must be capable of being falsified through empirical observations?

Leibniz held that innate ideas were tendencies.

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

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

What philosopher argued that hallucinations,dreams and other illusions give rise to errors that we "sublate" when we see that they are contradicted by other things our senses show us in the world around us?

The British empiricists,according to your text,are

Who compared the mind to a blank slate?

____________________ developed the view that is now known as transcendental idealism.

Personal memory,according to your textbook,is

Do you agree with Hume that we cannot know whether our ideas about reality are accurate? What assumption does Hume make when he makes this claim? Do you believe that this assumption is justified?

Locke held that ____________________ qualities are subjective.

How might the event described in Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" be used to undermine empiricism?