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Title: Name the philosopher known for the idea/quote


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So, you think you know your philosophers?
  • Name the philosopher known for the idea/quote

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Cogito ergo sum
  • Rene Descartes
  • What does the quote mean in English?
  • I think, therefore I am.

3
The first to say that knowledge is acquired via
the senses?
  • Aristotle

4
To be is to be perceived.
  • George Berkeley
  • What is the quote in Latin?
  • Esse est percipi.

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One cannot step into the same river twice.
  • Heraclitus
  • What point about reality is he making?
  • Everything is in a constant state of change.
    Nothing ever is, it is always becoming.

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That which is, is. That which is not, is not.
  • Parmenides
  • What point about reality is he making?
  • Change is impossible.

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This alone I know, that I know nothing.
  • Socrates
  • What is his MOST famous quote?
  • The unexamined life is not worth living.

8
Name the 3 British Empiricists
  • John Locke
  • George Berkeley
  • David Hume

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This Moderate Rationalist believed some
knowledge is a priori
  • Immanuel Kant
  • What does a priori mean?
  • The idea that knowledge is possible PRIOR to
    experience.

10
A Modern Philosopher who believed in innate
ideas
  • Rene Descartes

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Air is the basis of all creation.
  • Anaximenes

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All life originates from the sea.
  • Anaximander

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All things are perceived by God, the Ultimate
Perceiver
  • George Berkeley

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This early Athenian claimed that the mind brings
order to the world of matter by organising
sensory information.
  • Anaxogoras

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She was an early Neo-Platonist from Alexandria
  • Hypatia

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Atoms are the basic elements of matter
  • Democritus

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There are four intellectual idols to overcome.
  • Francis Bacon

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Universal forms reside within the particular
entities they embody
  • Aristotle

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Primary secondary qualities are not different
since they both come via sense experience
  • George Berkeley

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Earth, fire, water and air are the basic elements
of all things.
  • Empedocles

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The first to believe in innate ideas.
  • Plato
  • Who was his teacher?
  • Socrates
  • Who was Platos famous student?
  • Aristotle

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Ideas are not innate! They are attained by
experience.
  • John Locke

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Impressions are lively vivacious, ideas are
faint echoes of impressions.
  • David Hume
  • What did Hume think about the idea of
    causality?
  • It didnt exist we cant see causes. We only
    see the before, then the after.
  • What is the result of extrapolating Humes
    thinking?
  • There is no external reality. SKEPTICISM!

24
It is not possible to prove the truth of any idea
or theory with certainty.
  • Karl Popper

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Movement is impossible
  • Zeno
  • What are his famous paradoxes?
  • Achilles and the tortoise.
  • The arrow

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Numbers are the basic element of all things
  • Pythagoras

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Objects have primary secondary qualities
  • John Locke

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Rulers should be kings who think like philosophers
  • Plato

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Scientists work within an unquestioned set of
beliefs a paradigm that shapes their thinking.
  • Thomas Kuhn

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Senses tell us the way of seeming, reason gives
us the way of truth.
  • Parmenides

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Since the idea of God must come from God (Im not
capable) God must exist.
  • Rene Descartes

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So influential in philosophy, hes known as The
Philosopher.
  • Aristotle

33
The mind is a tabula rasa a blank slate or
blank page.
  • John Locke
  • What is the name of his most famous work?
  • An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

34
Water is the basic substance of all matter.
  • Thales

35
Wondered did I dream that I was a butterfly, or
am I a butterfly dreaming that Im me?
  • Chuang Tzu

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