Epistemology Trivia Questions
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Plato argued that genuine understanding requires more than just true opinion—it also requires this crucial element.
Difficulty: Easy- Emotion
- Justification
- Intuition
- Memory
This philosopher argued that we cannot step outside our own conceptual scheme to compare it with unconceptualized reality.
Difficulty: Medium- Donald Davidson
- Richard Rorty
- Hilary Putnam
- John Searle
Catherine Elgin argues that scientific understanding can involve representations that are literally false but nonetheless epistemically valuable because they exhibit this property.
Difficulty: Hard- Approximate truth
- Verisimilitude
- Felicitous falsehood
- Instrumental value
This position holds that all human knowledge ultimately derives from sensory observation and experience of the world.
Difficulty: Easy- Empiricism
- Rationalism
- Skepticism
- Pragmatism
This thesis holds that all evidence consistent with one theory is consistent with infinitely many incompatible alternatives.
Difficulty: Medium- Confirmation holism
- The problem of induction
- Underdetermination
- Epistemic relativism
Mark Schroeder's Humean theory of reasons holds that epistemic reasons for belief must connect to the believer's existing this type of state.
Difficulty: Hard- Evidence
- Knowledge
- Higher-order beliefs
- Desires
This philosophical stance maintains that human beings cannot have certain knowledge about the world or fundamental truths.
Difficulty: Easy- Dogmatism
- Skepticism
- Empiricism
- Foundationalism
This paradox involves a heap of sand and asks how many grains must be removed before it ceases to be a heap.
Difficulty: Medium- The ravens paradox
- The sorites paradox
- The lottery paradox
- The liar paradox
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