Unit 3: Optional theme — Epistemology
Topic 3.2: Problems of knowledge Questions
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True or false? The sceptic's real claim is that our beliefs are all false.
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Fill the gap: the ______ problem is that every reason needs a further reason, with no obvious end.
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Fill the gap: Berkeley's idealism is summed up in the slogan 'to be is to be ______'.
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Fill the gap: Gettier cases show a justified true belief can still fail to be knowledge when the belief is true only by ______.
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Reliabilism is an EXTERNAL theory because it says a belief is justified when:
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Fill the gap: 'I think, therefore I am' survives total doubt because to be deceived you must be ______ — and that proves a thinker exists.
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The classic 'JTB' definition says knowledge is:
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True or false? In the stopped-clock case, your belief about the time is false.
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What did Gettier's 1963 paper actually show?
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Representative realism says that:
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Coherentism differs from foundationalism because it says:
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Descartes' method of doubt works by:
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How does reliabilism connect back to the Gettier problem?
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In the stopped-clock case, why is it NOT knowledge though it's a justified true belief?
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Which of the three JTB ingredients does a LUCKY right guess fail?
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Foundationalism answers the regress by saying:
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The 'missing fourth ingredient' philosophers hunt for after Gettier is roughly:
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On the 'screen' problem for representative realism, the worry is that:
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