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Empiricism
A generation later, the Irish Anglican bishop, George Berkeley (1685–1753), determined that Locke's view immediately opened a door that would lead to eventual atheism. In response to Locke, he put forth in his Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710) an important challenge to empiricism in which thi...
What religion was George Berkeley?
{ "text": [ "Anglican" ], "answer_start": [ 30 ] }
572b3577f75d5e190021fd13
Empiricism
A generation later, the Irish Anglican bishop, George Berkeley (1685–1753), determined that Locke's view immediately opened a door that would lead to eventual atheism. In response to Locke, he put forth in his Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710) an important challenge to empiricism in which thi...
What nationality was George Berkeley?
{ "text": [ "Irish" ], "answer_start": [ 24 ] }
572b3577f75d5e190021fd14
Empiricism
A generation later, the Irish Anglican bishop, George Berkeley (1685–1753), determined that Locke's view immediately opened a door that would lead to eventual atheism. In response to Locke, he put forth in his Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710) an important challenge to empiricism in which thi...
Who wrote 'Alciphron'?
{ "text": [ "George Berkeley" ], "answer_start": [ 47 ] }
572b35e2f75d5e190021fd1a
Empiricism
The Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711–1776) responded to Berkeley's criticisms of Locke, as well as other differences between early modern philosophers, and moved empiricism to a new level of skepticism. Hume argued in keeping with the empiricist view that all knowledge derives from sense experience, but he accepte...
What did Hume bring to empiricism?
{ "text": [ "a new level of skepticism" ], "answer_start": [ 181 ] }
572b35e2f75d5e190021fd1b
Empiricism
The Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711–1776) responded to Berkeley's criticisms of Locke, as well as other differences between early modern philosophers, and moved empiricism to a new level of skepticism. Hume argued in keeping with the empiricist view that all knowledge derives from sense experience, but he accepte...
What was Hume's nationality?
{ "text": [ "Scottish" ], "answer_start": [ 4 ] }
572b35e2f75d5e190021fd1c
Empiricism
The Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711–1776) responded to Berkeley's criticisms of Locke, as well as other differences between early modern philosophers, and moved empiricism to a new level of skepticism. Hume argued in keeping with the empiricist view that all knowledge derives from sense experience, but he accepte...
What two types of arguments did Locke say there are?
{ "text": [ "demonstrative and probable" ], "answer_start": [ 446 ] }
572b35e2f75d5e190021fd1d
Empiricism
The Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711–1776) responded to Berkeley's criticisms of Locke, as well as other differences between early modern philosophers, and moved empiricism to a new level of skepticism. Hume argued in keeping with the empiricist view that all knowledge derives from sense experience, but he accepte...
When was Hume born?
{ "text": [ "1711" ], "answer_start": [ 37 ] }
572b35e2f75d5e190021fd1e
Empiricism
The Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711–1776) responded to Berkeley's criticisms of Locke, as well as other differences between early modern philosophers, and moved empiricism to a new level of skepticism. Hume argued in keeping with the empiricist view that all knowledge derives from sense experience, but he accepte...
When did Hume die?
{ "text": [ "1776" ], "answer_start": [ 42 ] }
572b3656be1ee31400cb82a1
Empiricism
Hume divided all of human knowledge into two categories: relations of ideas and matters of fact (see also Kant's analytic-synthetic distinction). Mathematical and logical propositions (e.g. "that the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the two sides") are examples of the first, while proposit...
What types of human knowledge did Hume say there are?
{ "text": [ "relations of ideas and matters of fact" ], "answer_start": [ 57 ] }
572b3656be1ee31400cb82a2
Empiricism
Hume divided all of human knowledge into two categories: relations of ideas and matters of fact (see also Kant's analytic-synthetic distinction). Mathematical and logical propositions (e.g. "that the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the two sides") are examples of the first, while proposit...
What type of human knowledge is math?
{ "text": [ "relations of ideas" ], "answer_start": [ 57 ] }
572b3656be1ee31400cb82a3
Empiricism
Hume divided all of human knowledge into two categories: relations of ideas and matters of fact (see also Kant's analytic-synthetic distinction). Mathematical and logical propositions (e.g. "that the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the two sides") are examples of the first, while proposit...
What type of human knowledge is observing the world?
{ "text": [ "matters of fact" ], "answer_start": [ 80 ] }
572b3656be1ee31400cb82a4
Empiricism
Hume divided all of human knowledge into two categories: relations of ideas and matters of fact (see also Kant's analytic-synthetic distinction). Mathematical and logical propositions (e.g. "that the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the two sides") are examples of the first, while proposit...
What type of human knowledge is "the sun rises in the East"?
{ "text": [ "matters of fact" ], "answer_start": [ 80 ] }
572b3656be1ee31400cb82a5
Empiricism
Hume divided all of human knowledge into two categories: relations of ideas and matters of fact (see also Kant's analytic-synthetic distinction). Mathematical and logical propositions (e.g. "that the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the two sides") are examples of the first, while proposit...
Where did Hume say people's ideas come from?
{ "text": [ "their \"impressions\"" ], "answer_start": [ 490 ] }
572b36debe1ee31400cb82ac
Empiricism
Hume maintained that all knowledge, even the most basic beliefs about the natural world, cannot be conclusively established by reason. Rather, he maintained, our beliefs are more a result of accumulated habits, developed in response to accumulated sense experiences. Among his many arguments Hume also added another impo...
What did Hume think our beliefs can't be established solely by?
{ "text": [ "reason" ], "answer_start": [ 127 ] }
572b36debe1ee31400cb82ad
Empiricism
Hume maintained that all knowledge, even the most basic beliefs about the natural world, cannot be conclusively established by reason. Rather, he maintained, our beliefs are more a result of accumulated habits, developed in response to accumulated sense experiences. Among his many arguments Hume also added another impo...
What did Hume think is a circular argument?
{ "text": [ "the justification for inductive reasoning" ], "answer_start": [ 537 ] }
572b36debe1ee31400cb82ae
Empiricism
Hume maintained that all knowledge, even the most basic beliefs about the natural world, cannot be conclusively established by reason. Rather, he maintained, our beliefs are more a result of accumulated habits, developed in response to accumulated sense experiences. Among his many arguments Hume also added another impo...
What did Hume say we can't know by inductive reasoning?
{ "text": [ "that the sun will continue to rise in the East" ], "answer_start": [ 828 ] }
572b36debe1ee31400cb82af
Empiricism
Hume maintained that all knowledge, even the most basic beliefs about the natural world, cannot be conclusively established by reason. Rather, he maintained, our beliefs are more a result of accumulated habits, developed in response to accumulated sense experiences. Among his many arguments Hume also added another impo...
Why did Hume say we expect the sun to rise?
{ "text": [ "because it has repeatedly done so in the past" ], "answer_start": [ 915 ] }
572b3ab4111d821400f38de4
Empiricism
Most of Hume's followers have disagreed with his conclusion that belief in an external world is rationally unjustifiable, contending that Hume's own principles implicitly contained the rational justification for such a belief, that is, beyond being content to let the issue rest on human instinct, custom and habit. Acco...
What conclusion do most of Hume's followers disagree with?
{ "text": [ "that belief in an external world is rationally unjustifiable" ], "answer_start": [ 60 ] }
572b3ab4111d821400f38de5
Empiricism
Most of Hume's followers have disagreed with his conclusion that belief in an external world is rationally unjustifiable, contending that Hume's own principles implicitly contained the rational justification for such a belief, that is, beyond being content to let the issue rest on human instinct, custom and habit. Acco...
What did Hume say can't be rationally justified?
{ "text": [ "belief in an external world" ], "answer_start": [ 65 ] }
572b3ab4111d821400f38de7
Empiricism
Most of Hume's followers have disagreed with his conclusion that belief in an external world is rationally unjustifiable, contending that Hume's own principles implicitly contained the rational justification for such a belief, that is, beyond being content to let the issue rest on human instinct, custom and habit. Acco...
What is subjective idealism closely related to?
{ "text": [ "Phenomenalism" ], "answer_start": [ 513 ] }
572b3ab4111d821400f38de8
Empiricism
Most of Hume's followers have disagreed with his conclusion that belief in an external world is rationally unjustifiable, contending that Hume's own principles implicitly contained the rational justification for such a belief, that is, beyond being content to let the issue rest on human instinct, custom and habit. Acco...
What did John Stuart Mill say matter is?
{ "text": [ "the \"permanent possibility of sensation\"" ], "answer_start": [ 1154 ] }
572b3f4734ae481900dead45
Empiricism
Mill's empiricism thus held that knowledge of any kind is not from direct experience but an inductive inference from direct experience. The problems other philosophers have had with Mill's position center around the following issues: Firstly, Mill's formulation encounters difficulty when it describes what direct experi...
What did Mill say knowledge comes from?
{ "text": [ "an inductive inference from direct experience" ], "answer_start": [ 89 ] }
572b3f4734ae481900dead46
Empiricism
Mill's empiricism thus held that knowledge of any kind is not from direct experience but an inductive inference from direct experience. The problems other philosophers have had with Mill's position center around the following issues: Firstly, Mill's formulation encounters difficulty when it describes what direct experi...
What sensations did Mill differentiate?
{ "text": [ "actual and possible sensations" ], "answer_start": [ 360 ] }
572b3f4734ae481900dead47
Empiricism
Mill's empiricism thus held that knowledge of any kind is not from direct experience but an inductive inference from direct experience. The problems other philosophers have had with Mill's position center around the following issues: Firstly, Mill's formulation encounters difficulty when it describes what direct experi...
When Mill left a question of sensations unanswered, how did Berkeley answer it?
{ "text": [ "God" ], "answer_start": [ 557 ] }
572b3f4734ae481900dead48
Empiricism
Mill's empiricism thus held that knowledge of any kind is not from direct experience but an inductive inference from direct experience. The problems other philosophers have had with Mill's position center around the following issues: Firstly, Mill's formulation encounters difficulty when it describes what direct experi...
What did Mill say might not actually exist?
{ "text": [ "gap-filling entities" ], "answer_start": [ 1121 ] }
572b40d0111d821400f38df6
Empiricism
The phenomenalist phase of post-Humean empiricism ended by the 1940s, for by that time it had become obvious that statements about physical things could not be translated into statements about actual and possible sense data. If a physical object statement is to be translatable into a sense-data statement, the former mu...
What phase of empiricism ended in the 1940s?
{ "text": [ "phenomenalist" ], "answer_start": [ 4 ] }
572b40d0111d821400f38df7
Empiricism
The phenomenalist phase of post-Humean empiricism ended by the 1940s, for by that time it had become obvious that statements about physical things could not be translated into statements about actual and possible sense data. If a physical object statement is to be translatable into a sense-data statement, the former mu...
How can't a finite set of statements be described?
{ "text": [ "in purely sensory terms" ], "answer_start": [ 736 ] }
572b40d0111d821400f38df8
Empiricism
The phenomenalist phase of post-Humean empiricism ended by the 1940s, for by that time it had become obvious that statements about physical things could not be translated into statements about actual and possible sense data. If a physical object statement is to be translatable into a sense-data statement, the former mu...
What is necessary to explain a doctor's normality in sensory terms?
{ "text": [ "a second doctor" ], "answer_start": [ 1204 ] }
572b415834ae481900dead4f
Empiricism
Logical empiricism (also logical positivism or neopositivism) was an early 20th-century attempt to synthesize the essential ideas of British empiricism (e.g. a strong emphasis on sensory experience as the basis for knowledge) with certain insights from mathematical logic that had been developed by Gottlob Frege and Lud...
What are other terms for logical empiricism?
{ "text": [ "logical positivism or neopositivism" ], "answer_start": [ 25 ] }
572b415834ae481900dead50
Empiricism
Logical empiricism (also logical positivism or neopositivism) was an early 20th-century attempt to synthesize the essential ideas of British empiricism (e.g. a strong emphasis on sensory experience as the basis for knowledge) with certain insights from mathematical logic that had been developed by Gottlob Frege and Lud...
When was logical empricism formulated?
{ "text": [ "early 20th-century" ], "answer_start": [ 69 ] }
572b415834ae481900dead51
Empiricism
Logical empiricism (also logical positivism or neopositivism) was an early 20th-century attempt to synthesize the essential ideas of British empiricism (e.g. a strong emphasis on sensory experience as the basis for knowledge) with certain insights from mathematical logic that had been developed by Gottlob Frege and Lud...
What did logical empiricism try to combine with mathematical logic?
{ "text": [ "British empiricism" ], "answer_start": [ 133 ] }
572b415834ae481900dead52
Empiricism
Logical empiricism (also logical positivism or neopositivism) was an early 20th-century attempt to synthesize the essential ideas of British empiricism (e.g. a strong emphasis on sensory experience as the basis for knowledge) with certain insights from mathematical logic that had been developed by Gottlob Frege and Lud...
What was Otto Neurath an important member of?
{ "text": [ "Logical empiricism" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
572b415834ae481900dead53
Empiricism
Logical empiricism (also logical positivism or neopositivism) was an early 20th-century attempt to synthesize the essential ideas of British empiricism (e.g. a strong emphasis on sensory experience as the basis for knowledge) with certain insights from mathematical logic that had been developed by Gottlob Frege and Lud...
What was AJ Ayer an important member of?
{ "text": [ "Logical empiricism" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
572b41aabe1ee31400cb82bf
Empiricism
The neopositivists subscribed to a notion of philosophy as the conceptual clarification of the methods, insights and discoveries of the sciences. They saw in the logical symbolism elaborated by Frege (1848–1925) and Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) a powerful instrument that could rationally reconstruct all scientific disc...
When was Bertrand Russell born?
{ "text": [ "1872" ], "answer_start": [ 234 ] }
572b41aabe1ee31400cb82c0
Empiricism
The neopositivists subscribed to a notion of philosophy as the conceptual clarification of the methods, insights and discoveries of the sciences. They saw in the logical symbolism elaborated by Frege (1848–1925) and Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) a powerful instrument that could rationally reconstruct all scientific disc...
When did Bertrand Russell die?
{ "text": [ "1970" ], "answer_start": [ 239 ] }
572b41aabe1ee31400cb82c1
Empiricism
The neopositivists subscribed to a notion of philosophy as the conceptual clarification of the methods, insights and discoveries of the sciences. They saw in the logical symbolism elaborated by Frege (1848–1925) and Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) a powerful instrument that could rationally reconstruct all scientific disc...
What did Frege say about math?
{ "text": [ "all mathematical truths are logical" ], "answer_start": [ 574 ] }
572b41aabe1ee31400cb82c2
Empiricism
The neopositivists subscribed to a notion of philosophy as the conceptual clarification of the methods, insights and discoveries of the sciences. They saw in the logical symbolism elaborated by Frege (1848–1925) and Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) a powerful instrument that could rationally reconstruct all scientific disc...
What did Wittgenstein say about logic?
{ "text": [ "all logical truths are mere linguistic tautologies" ], "answer_start": [ 650 ] }
572b41aabe1ee31400cb82c3
Empiricism
The neopositivists subscribed to a notion of philosophy as the conceptual clarification of the methods, insights and discoveries of the sciences. They saw in the logical symbolism elaborated by Frege (1848–1925) and Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) a powerful instrument that could rationally reconstruct all scientific disc...
What are pseudoproblems?
{ "text": [ "most metaphysical, ethical, aesthetic and other traditional philosophical problems" ], "answer_start": [ 1077 ] }
572b429af75d5e190021fd2e
Empiricism
In the extreme empiricism of the neopositivists—at least before the 1930s—any genuinely synthetic assertion must be reducible to an ultimate assertion (or set of ultimate assertions) that expresses direct observations or perceptions. In later years, Carnap and Neurath abandoned this sort of phenomenalism in favor of a ...
Who were extreme empiricists?
{ "text": [ "neopositivists" ], "answer_start": [ 33 ] }
572b429af75d5e190021fd30
Empiricism
In the extreme empiricism of the neopositivists—at least before the 1930s—any genuinely synthetic assertion must be reducible to an ultimate assertion (or set of ultimate assertions) that expresses direct observations or perceptions. In later years, Carnap and Neurath abandoned this sort of phenomenalism in favor of a ...
What position does Dummett take?
{ "text": [ "anti-realists" ], "answer_start": [ 1121 ] }
572b429af75d5e190021fd31
Empiricism
In the extreme empiricism of the neopositivists—at least before the 1930s—any genuinely synthetic assertion must be reducible to an ultimate assertion (or set of ultimate assertions) that expresses direct observations or perceptions. In later years, Carnap and Neurath abandoned this sort of phenomenalism in favor of a ...
Who abandoned phenomenalism?
{ "text": [ "Carnap and Neurath" ], "answer_start": [ 250 ] }
572b42f9be1ee31400cb82d1
Empiricism
In the late 19th and early 20th century several forms of pragmatic philosophy arose. The ideas of pragmatism, in its various forms, developed mainly from discussions between Charles Sanders Peirce and William James when both men were at Harvard in the 1870s. James popularized the term "pragmatism", giving Peirce full c...
When did pragmatism arise?
{ "text": [ "In the late 19th and early 20th century" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
572b42f9be1ee31400cb82d2
Empiricism
In the late 19th and early 20th century several forms of pragmatic philosophy arose. The ideas of pragmatism, in its various forms, developed mainly from discussions between Charles Sanders Peirce and William James when both men were at Harvard in the 1870s. James popularized the term "pragmatism", giving Peirce full c...
Who developed pragmatism?
{ "text": [ "Charles Sanders Peirce and William James" ], "answer_start": [ 174 ] }
572b42f9be1ee31400cb82d3
Empiricism
In the late 19th and early 20th century several forms of pragmatic philosophy arose. The ideas of pragmatism, in its various forms, developed mainly from discussions between Charles Sanders Peirce and William James when both men were at Harvard in the 1870s. James popularized the term "pragmatism", giving Peirce full c...
Where did Peirce and James meet?
{ "text": [ "Harvard" ], "answer_start": [ 237 ] }
572b42f9be1ee31400cb82d4
Empiricism
In the late 19th and early 20th century several forms of pragmatic philosophy arose. The ideas of pragmatism, in its various forms, developed mainly from discussions between Charles Sanders Peirce and William James when both men were at Harvard in the 1870s. James popularized the term "pragmatism", giving Peirce full c...
When did Peirce and James meet?
{ "text": [ "in the 1870s" ], "answer_start": [ 245 ] }
572b42f9be1ee31400cb82d5
Empiricism
In the late 19th and early 20th century several forms of pragmatic philosophy arose. The ideas of pragmatism, in its various forms, developed mainly from discussions between Charles Sanders Peirce and William James when both men were at Harvard in the 1870s. James popularized the term "pragmatism", giving Peirce full c...
What did Peirce later call his ideas instead of pragmatism?
{ "text": [ "pragmaticism" ], "answer_start": [ 488 ] }
572b4375be1ee31400cb82db
Empiricism
Charles Peirce (1839–1914) was highly influential in laying the groundwork for today's empirical scientific method.[citation needed] Although Peirce severely criticized many elements of Descartes' peculiar brand of rationalism, he did not reject rationalism outright. Indeed, he concurred with the main ideas of rational...
When was Peirce born?
{ "text": [ "1839" ], "answer_start": [ 16 ] }
572b4375be1ee31400cb82dc
Empiricism
Charles Peirce (1839–1914) was highly influential in laying the groundwork for today's empirical scientific method.[citation needed] Although Peirce severely criticized many elements of Descartes' peculiar brand of rationalism, he did not reject rationalism outright. Indeed, he concurred with the main ideas of rational...
When did Peirce die?
{ "text": [ "1914" ], "answer_start": [ 21 ] }
572b4375be1ee31400cb82dd
Empiricism
Charles Peirce (1839–1914) was highly influential in laying the groundwork for today's empirical scientific method.[citation needed] Although Peirce severely criticized many elements of Descartes' peculiar brand of rationalism, he did not reject rationalism outright. Indeed, he concurred with the main ideas of rational...
What view did Peirce think had been driven to excess?
{ "text": [ "the \"data-driven\" strict-empiricist view" ], "answer_start": [ 721 ] }
572b4375be1ee31400cb82de
Empiricism
Charles Peirce (1839–1914) was highly influential in laying the groundwork for today's empirical scientific method.[citation needed] Although Peirce severely criticized many elements of Descartes' peculiar brand of rationalism, he did not reject rationalism outright. Indeed, he concurred with the main ideas of rational...
Who formed the basis for modern scientific method?
{ "text": [ "Charles Peirce" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
572b4375be1ee31400cb82df
Empiricism
Charles Peirce (1839–1914) was highly influential in laying the groundwork for today's empirical scientific method.[citation needed] Although Peirce severely criticized many elements of Descartes' peculiar brand of rationalism, he did not reject rationalism outright. Indeed, he concurred with the main ideas of rational...
Whose rationalism did Peirce criticize?
{ "text": [ "Descartes" ], "answer_start": [ 186 ] }
572b441cf75d5e190021fd42
Empiricism
Among Peirce's major contributions was to place inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning in a complementary rather than competitive mode, the latter of which had been the primary trend among the educated since David Hume wrote a century before. To this, Peirce added the concept of abductive reasoning. The combined t...
How long before Peirce did Hume write?
{ "text": [ "a century" ], "answer_start": [ 230 ] }
572b441cf75d5e190021fd43
Empiricism
Among Peirce's major contributions was to place inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning in a complementary rather than competitive mode, the latter of which had been the primary trend among the educated since David Hume wrote a century before. To this, Peirce added the concept of abductive reasoning. The combined t...
How did Peirce view inductive vs deductive reasoning?
{ "text": [ "complementary" ], "answer_start": [ 97 ] }
572b441cf75d5e190021fd44
Empiricism
Among Peirce's major contributions was to place inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning in a complementary rather than competitive mode, the latter of which had been the primary trend among the educated since David Hume wrote a century before. To this, Peirce added the concept of abductive reasoning. The combined t...
How did Hume view inductive vs deductive reasoning?
{ "text": [ "competitive" ], "answer_start": [ 123 ] }
572b441cf75d5e190021fd45
Empiricism
Among Peirce's major contributions was to place inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning in a complementary rather than competitive mode, the latter of which had been the primary trend among the educated since David Hume wrote a century before. To this, Peirce added the concept of abductive reasoning. The combined t...
What did fallibilism say?
{ "text": [ "the conclusions of science are always tentative" ], "answer_start": [ 752 ] }
572b441cf75d5e190021fd46
Empiricism
Among Peirce's major contributions was to place inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning in a complementary rather than competitive mode, the latter of which had been the primary trend among the educated since David Hume wrote a century before. To this, Peirce added the concept of abductive reasoning. The combined t...
What does the scientific method's rationality depend on?
{ "text": [ "its self-corrective character" ], "answer_start": [ 902 ] }
572b449df75d5e190021fd4c
Empiricism
In his Harvard "Lectures on Pragmatism" (1903), Peirce enumerated what he called the "three cotary propositions of pragmatism" (L: cos, cotis whetstone), saying that they "put the edge on the maxim of pragmatism". First among these he listed the peripatetic-thomist observation mentioned above, but he further observed t...
Who wrote 'Lectures on Pragmatism'?
{ "text": [ "Peirce" ], "answer_start": [ 48 ] }
572b449df75d5e190021fd4d
Empiricism
In his Harvard "Lectures on Pragmatism" (1903), Peirce enumerated what he called the "three cotary propositions of pragmatism" (L: cos, cotis whetstone), saying that they "put the edge on the maxim of pragmatism". First among these he listed the peripatetic-thomist observation mentioned above, but he further observed t...
When was 'Lectures on Pragmatism' published?
{ "text": [ "1903" ], "answer_start": [ 41 ] }
572b449df75d5e190021fd4e
Empiricism
In his Harvard "Lectures on Pragmatism" (1903), Peirce enumerated what he called the "three cotary propositions of pragmatism" (L: cos, cotis whetstone), saying that they "put the edge on the maxim of pragmatism". First among these he listed the peripatetic-thomist observation mentioned above, but he further observed t...
What is 'haecceity'?
{ "text": [ "unique individuality or \"thisness\"" ], "answer_start": [ 880 ] }
572b449df75d5e190021fd4f
Empiricism
In his Harvard "Lectures on Pragmatism" (1903), Peirce enumerated what he called the "three cotary propositions of pragmatism" (L: cos, cotis whetstone), saying that they "put the edge on the maxim of pragmatism". First among these he listed the peripatetic-thomist observation mentioned above, but he further observed t...
What did Irvin Rock write about?
{ "text": [ "indirect perception" ], "answer_start": [ 1328 ] }
572b449df75d5e190021fd50
Empiricism
In his Harvard "Lectures on Pragmatism" (1903), Peirce enumerated what he called the "three cotary propositions of pragmatism" (L: cos, cotis whetstone), saying that they "put the edge on the maxim of pragmatism". First among these he listed the peripatetic-thomist observation mentioned above, but he further observed t...
Where has 'perception as abduction' come up repeatedly?
{ "text": [ "in artificial intelligence and cognitive science research" ], "answer_start": [ 1211 ] }
572b4537f75d5e190021fd56
Empiricism
Around the beginning of the 20th century, William James (1842–1910) coined the term "radical empiricism" to describe an offshoot of his form of pragmatism, which he argued could be dealt with separately from his pragmatism – though in fact the two concepts are intertwined in James's published lectures. James maintained...
Who came up with 'radical empiricism'?
{ "text": [ "William James" ], "answer_start": [ 42 ] }
572b4537f75d5e190021fd57
Empiricism
Around the beginning of the 20th century, William James (1842–1910) coined the term "radical empiricism" to describe an offshoot of his form of pragmatism, which he argued could be dealt with separately from his pragmatism – though in fact the two concepts are intertwined in James's published lectures. James maintained...
Where were James's pragmatism and radical empiricism intertwined?
{ "text": [ "in James's published lectures" ], "answer_start": [ 273 ] }
572b4537f75d5e190021fd58
Empiricism
Around the beginning of the 20th century, William James (1842–1910) coined the term "radical empiricism" to describe an offshoot of his form of pragmatism, which he argued could be dealt with separately from his pragmatism – though in fact the two concepts are intertwined in James's published lectures. James maintained...
When was William James born?
{ "text": [ "1842" ], "answer_start": [ 57 ] }
572b4537f75d5e190021fd59
Empiricism
Around the beginning of the 20th century, William James (1842–1910) coined the term "radical empiricism" to describe an offshoot of his form of pragmatism, which he argued could be dealt with separately from his pragmatism – though in fact the two concepts are intertwined in James's published lectures. James maintained...
When did William James die?
{ "text": [ "1910" ], "answer_start": [ 62 ] }
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Empiricism
Around the beginning of the 20th century, William James (1842–1910) coined the term "radical empiricism" to describe an offshoot of his form of pragmatism, which he argued could be dealt with separately from his pragmatism – though in fact the two concepts are intertwined in James's published lectures. James maintained...
When did James come up with 'radical empiricism'?
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Empiricism
John Dewey (1859–1952) modified James' pragmatism to form a theory known as instrumentalism. The role of sense experience in Dewey's theory is crucial, in that he saw experience as unified totality of things through which everything else is interrelated. Dewey's basic thought, in accordance with empiricism was that rea...
Who came up with 'instrumentalism'?
{ "text": [ "John Dewey" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
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Empiricism
John Dewey (1859–1952) modified James' pragmatism to form a theory known as instrumentalism. The role of sense experience in Dewey's theory is crucial, in that he saw experience as unified totality of things through which everything else is interrelated. Dewey's basic thought, in accordance with empiricism was that rea...
What did Dewey think about reality?
{ "text": [ "reality is determined by past experience" ], "answer_start": [ 317 ] }
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Empiricism
John Dewey (1859–1952) modified James' pragmatism to form a theory known as instrumentalism. The role of sense experience in Dewey's theory is crucial, in that he saw experience as unified totality of things through which everything else is interrelated. Dewey's basic thought, in accordance with empiricism was that rea...
When was Dewey born?
{ "text": [ "1859" ], "answer_start": [ 12 ] }
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Empiricism
John Dewey (1859–1952) modified James' pragmatism to form a theory known as instrumentalism. The role of sense experience in Dewey's theory is crucial, in that he saw experience as unified totality of things through which everything else is interrelated. Dewey's basic thought, in accordance with empiricism was that rea...
When did Dewey die?
{ "text": [ "1952" ], "answer_start": [ 17 ] }
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Empiricism
John Dewey (1859–1952) modified James' pragmatism to form a theory known as instrumentalism. The role of sense experience in Dewey's theory is crucial, in that he saw experience as unified totality of things through which everything else is interrelated. Dewey's basic thought, in accordance with empiricism was that rea...
What was instrumentalism a modification of?
{ "text": [ "James' pragmatism" ], "answer_start": [ 32 ] }
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Idealism
In philosophy, idealism is the group of philosophies which assert that reality, or reality as we can know it, is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed, or otherwise immaterial. Epistemologically, idealism manifests as a skepticism about the possibility of knowing any mind-independent thing. In a sociological sense...
What do idealist philosophies say is constructed in our minds?
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Idealism
In philosophy, idealism is the group of philosophies which assert that reality, or reality as we can know it, is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed, or otherwise immaterial. Epistemologically, idealism manifests as a skepticism about the possibility of knowing any mind-independent thing. In a sociological sense...
What types of things are idealist philosophies skeptical about?
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572b6958be1ee31400cb8367
Idealism
In philosophy, idealism is the group of philosophies which assert that reality, or reality as we can know it, is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed, or otherwise immaterial. Epistemologically, idealism manifests as a skepticism about the possibility of knowing any mind-independent thing. In a sociological sense...
Along with physicalist theories, what theories is idealism in conflict with?
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Idealism
In philosophy, idealism is the group of philosophies which assert that reality, or reality as we can know it, is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed, or otherwise immaterial. Epistemologically, idealism manifests as a skepticism about the possibility of knowing any mind-independent thing. In a sociological sense...
In sociology, what sorts of ideas does idealism focus on?
{ "text": [ "beliefs and values" ], "answer_start": [ 369 ] }
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Idealism
The earliest extant arguments that the world of experience is grounded in the mental derive from India and Greece. The Hindu idealists in India and the Greek Neoplatonists gave panentheistic arguments for an all-pervading consciousness as the ground or true nature of reality. In contrast, the Yogācāra school, which aro...
What Indian thinkers were early idealists?
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Idealism
The earliest extant arguments that the world of experience is grounded in the mental derive from India and Greece. The Hindu idealists in India and the Greek Neoplatonists gave panentheistic arguments for an all-pervading consciousness as the ground or true nature of reality. In contrast, the Yogācāra school, which aro...
What Greek philosophers had idealistic views?
{ "text": [ "Neoplatonists" ], "answer_start": [ 158 ] }
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Idealism
The earliest extant arguments that the world of experience is grounded in the mental derive from India and Greece. The Hindu idealists in India and the Greek Neoplatonists gave panentheistic arguments for an all-pervading consciousness as the ground or true nature of reality. In contrast, the Yogācāra school, which aro...
With what sect of Buddhism was the Yogācāra school affiliated?
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Idealism
The earliest extant arguments that the world of experience is grounded in the mental derive from India and Greece. The Hindu idealists in India and the Greek Neoplatonists gave panentheistic arguments for an all-pervading consciousness as the ground or true nature of reality. In contrast, the Yogācāra school, which aro...
In what century did the Yogācāra school arise?
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Idealism
The earliest extant arguments that the world of experience is grounded in the mental derive from India and Greece. The Hindu idealists in India and the Greek Neoplatonists gave panentheistic arguments for an all-pervading consciousness as the ground or true nature of reality. In contrast, the Yogācāra school, which aro...
What century did George Berkeley live in?
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Idealism
Beginning with Immanuel Kant, German idealists such as G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, and Arthur Schopenhauer dominated 19th-century philosophy. This tradition, which emphasized the mental or "ideal" character of all phenomena, gave birth to idealistic and subjectivist schoo...
What was the ethnicity of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling?
{ "text": [ "German" ], "answer_start": [ 30 ] }
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Idealism
Beginning with Immanuel Kant, German idealists such as G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, and Arthur Schopenhauer dominated 19th-century philosophy. This tradition, which emphasized the mental or "ideal" character of all phenomena, gave birth to idealistic and subjectivist schoo...
In what century did Hegel write?
{ "text": [ "19th" ], "answer_start": [ 165 ] }
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Idealism
Beginning with Immanuel Kant, German idealists such as G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, and Arthur Schopenhauer dominated 19th-century philosophy. This tradition, which emphasized the mental or "ideal" character of all phenomena, gave birth to idealistic and subjectivist schoo...
Along with British idealism and existentialism, what philosophy was influenced by the German idealistic tradition?
{ "text": [ "phenomenalism" ], "answer_start": [ 356 ] }
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Idealism
Beginning with Immanuel Kant, German idealists such as G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, and Arthur Schopenhauer dominated 19th-century philosophy. This tradition, which emphasized the mental or "ideal" character of all phenomena, gave birth to idealistic and subjectivist schoo...
Along with positivism and pragmatism, what philosophy rejected idealism's metaphysical views but what nevertheless influenced by it?
{ "text": [ "Marxism" ], "answer_start": [ 529 ] }
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Idealism
Idealism is a term with several related meanings. It comes via idea from the Greek idein (ἰδεῖν), meaning "to see". The term entered the English language by 1743. In ordinary use, as when speaking of Woodrow Wilson's political idealism, it generally suggests the priority of ideals, principles, values, and goals over co...
What does ἰδεῖν mean in English?
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Idealism
Idealism is a term with several related meanings. It comes via idea from the Greek idein (ἰδεῖν), meaning "to see". The term entered the English language by 1743. In ordinary use, as when speaking of Woodrow Wilson's political idealism, it generally suggests the priority of ideals, principles, values, and goals over co...
By what year was "idealism" a word in English?
{ "text": [ "1743" ], "answer_start": [ 157 ] }
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Idealism
Idealism is a term with several related meanings. It comes via idea from the Greek idein (ἰδεῖν), meaning "to see". The term entered the English language by 1743. In ordinary use, as when speaking of Woodrow Wilson's political idealism, it generally suggests the priority of ideals, principles, values, and goals over co...
Whose worldview contrasts with that of idealists in the ordinary sense of the word?
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Idealism
Idealism is a term with several related meanings. It comes via idea from the Greek idein (ἰδεῖν), meaning "to see". The term entered the English language by 1743. In ordinary use, as when speaking of Woodrow Wilson's political idealism, it generally suggests the priority of ideals, principles, values, and goals over co...
What language is ἰδεῖν?
{ "text": [ "Greek" ], "answer_start": [ 77 ] }
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Idealism
Any philosophy that assigns crucial importance to the ideal or spiritual realm in its account of human existence may be termed "idealist". Metaphysical idealism is an ontological doctrine that holds that reality itself is incorporeal or experiential at its core. Beyond this, idealists disagree on which aspects of the m...
What is the term used for philosophies that consider the spiritual to be of paramount importance?
{ "text": [ "idealist" ], "answer_start": [ 128 ] }
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Idealism
Any philosophy that assigns crucial importance to the ideal or spiritual realm in its account of human existence may be termed "idealist". Metaphysical idealism is an ontological doctrine that holds that reality itself is incorporeal or experiential at its core. Beyond this, idealists disagree on which aspects of the m...
What branch of idealism believes that reality is fundamentally nonphysical?
{ "text": [ "Metaphysical" ], "answer_start": [ 139 ] }
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Idealism
Any philosophy that assigns crucial importance to the ideal or spiritual realm in its account of human existence may be termed "idealist". Metaphysical idealism is an ontological doctrine that holds that reality itself is incorporeal or experiential at its core. Beyond this, idealists disagree on which aspects of the m...
What branch of idealism sees abstracts as more real than perceived objects?
{ "text": [ "Platonic" ], "answer_start": [ 342 ] }
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Idealism
Any philosophy that assigns crucial importance to the ideal or spiritual realm in its account of human existence may be termed "idealist". Metaphysical idealism is an ontological doctrine that holds that reality itself is incorporeal or experiential at its core. Beyond this, idealists disagree on which aspects of the m...
Along with phenomenalists, what idealists believe the senses are more important than reason?
{ "text": [ "subjective" ], "answer_start": [ 447 ] }
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Idealism
Any philosophy that assigns crucial importance to the ideal or spiritual realm in its account of human existence may be termed "idealist". Metaphysical idealism is an ontological doctrine that holds that reality itself is incorporeal or experiential at its core. Beyond this, idealists disagree on which aspects of the m...
What branch of idealism believes that we can only know the real world via ideas?
{ "text": [ "Epistemological" ], "answer_start": [ 549 ] }
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Idealism
Subjective idealists like George Berkeley are anti-realists in terms of a mind-independent world, whereas transcendental idealists like Immanuel Kant are strong skeptics of such a world, affirming epistemological and not metaphysical idealism. Thus Kant defines idealism as "the assertion that we can never be certain wh...
Who is a notable subjective idealist?
{ "text": [ "George Berkeley" ], "answer_start": [ 26 ] }
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Idealism
Subjective idealists like George Berkeley are anti-realists in terms of a mind-independent world, whereas transcendental idealists like Immanuel Kant are strong skeptics of such a world, affirming epistemological and not metaphysical idealism. Thus Kant defines idealism as "the assertion that we can never be certain wh...
What famous philosopher was a transcendental idealist?
{ "text": [ "Immanuel Kant" ], "answer_start": [ 136 ] }
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Idealism
Subjective idealists like George Berkeley are anti-realists in terms of a mind-independent world, whereas transcendental idealists like Immanuel Kant are strong skeptics of such a world, affirming epistemological and not metaphysical idealism. Thus Kant defines idealism as "the assertion that we can never be certain wh...
Who are subjective idealists opposed to?
{ "text": [ "realists" ], "answer_start": [ 51 ] }
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Idealism
Subjective idealists like George Berkeley are anti-realists in terms of a mind-independent world, whereas transcendental idealists like Immanuel Kant are strong skeptics of such a world, affirming epistemological and not metaphysical idealism. Thus Kant defines idealism as "the assertion that we can never be certain wh...
Along with Plato, what notable philosopher rejected epistemological idealism?
{ "text": [ "Gottfried Leibniz" ], "answer_start": [ 911 ] }
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Idealism
Subjective idealists like George Berkeley are anti-realists in terms of a mind-independent world, whereas transcendental idealists like Immanuel Kant are strong skeptics of such a world, affirming epistemological and not metaphysical idealism. Thus Kant defines idealism as "the assertion that we can never be certain wh...
Who believed the essence of reality to be composed of monads?
{ "text": [ "Leibniz" ], "answer_start": [ 1288 ] }
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Idealism
Christian theologians have held idealist views, often based on Neoplatonism, despite the influence of Aristotelian scholasticism from the 12th century onward. Later western theistic idealism such as that of Hermann Lotze offers a theory of the "world ground" in which all things find their unity: it has been widely acce...
In what philosophy was Christian idealism often rooted?
{ "text": [ "Neoplatonism" ], "answer_start": [ 63 ] }
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Idealism
Christian theologians have held idealist views, often based on Neoplatonism, despite the influence of Aristotelian scholasticism from the 12th century onward. Later western theistic idealism such as that of Hermann Lotze offers a theory of the "world ground" in which all things find their unity: it has been widely acce...
What philosophy influential in the medieval church was opposed to Christian idealism?
{ "text": [ "Aristotelian scholasticism" ], "answer_start": [ 102 ] }