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

A) sense perception, ideas and concepts.
B) God, minds and material bodies.
C) understanding, sense perception and material bodies.
D) God, material bodies and properties of material bodies.

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

A) Hume
B) Locke
C) Descartes
D) Kant

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Empiricism is the view that ____________________ can be obtained only through sense experience.

Are there any differences between Descartes' skepticism and that of Hume? If you think that there are,outline them,and explain how they might have contributed to the different epistemological views of these two philosophers.If you think that there are no such differences between the skepticisms of these two philosophers,provide an explanation of how their respective epistemologies are so different from each other.

Locke was an empiricist.

Descartes' methodological point of departure was

The argument,"The three Toyota Corollas I've owned turned out to be pretty reliable,so I think all Toyota Corollas are going to be reliable." is an example of a(n)

Innate ideas are ideas that

Berkeley was an atheist.

What,according to Shankara,was real?

Rationalism is the view that

What philosopher argues that space and time are structures within our minds?

Locke believed that there was no difference between primary and secondary qualities.

____________________ ____________________ are ideas that are present in the mind from birth.

In Hume's philosophy,all the contents of our mind can be reduced to those given by the senses and experience.He calls these

In what way does Kant's account of knowledge combine elements of both rationalism and empiricism? Do you believe that Kant is successful in overcoming Humean skepticism? Explain your answer.

Carried to an extreme Berkeley's thinking can become

Knowledge that does not depend on sense experience is ____________________ ____________________ knowledge.

According to Jainism,the practice of ____ is key to our future liberation.It basically means the avoidance of all aggression,injury,or harm to other living things.

____________________ refers to the processes of seeing,hearing,smelling,touching,and tasting.