Is to think or express oneself in a rational or logical manner.

This are statements that can be proven.

This can not be proven. They are based on someone’s thoughts, their feelings, and their understanding.

What are the three theories of truth?

A belief is true if there exists an appropriate entity - a fact to which it corresponds. If there is no entity, the belief is false.

Attacking the individual person instead of the argument.

Telling the hearer that something bad will happen to them if they do not accept the argument.

Urging the hearer to accept the argument based upon an appeal to emotions, sympathy, etc.

Urging the hearer to accept a position because the majority of the people hold to it.

According to him, knowledge is a “mental grasp of reality reached either by perceptual observation or by a process of reason based on perceptual observation”.

They believe that reason is the sole source of knowledge.

They believe that aside from reason, experience is also a source of knowledge

Who are the Empiricists?

Who are the Rationalists?

This considers experience as a source of knowledge.

This is just half of the story of knowing.

This is the central in the study of Philosophy.

Preposition in absolute reality.

Objective reality.

What are the process of acquiring knowledge?

Our first and only contact with reality is through our senses.

To know is to know something. This “something” is what philosophers call reality, existence, and being.

An abstract or generic idea generalized from particular instances.

Refers to the use of an ambiguous word or phrase in more than one sense within the same argument.

Assuming the thing that you are trying to prove is true.

It assumes that a belief is true when we are able to confirm it with reality.

It is the process of reasoning from what we think is true to what else is true.

It is a statement that expresses either an assertion or a denial. An existent belongs to a class or possesses certain attributes