Epistemology

when you wake up you know..

• The sky is blue
• The sun is shining
• and the grass is green

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• You know that when you smell bacon from downstairs breakfast is being made
• You know that when your stomach growls you're probably humgry

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• How do I know these things?
• How did I get this knowledge?

Empiricism vs rationalism

• The two original thoughts of how we gained 
• our knowledge.

empiricsm

• The belief that we gain our knowledge 
• from experience. 

John Locke

• Empiricist
• Tabula Rasa - blank state
• When born our minds are empty and as we experience things through senses 
• our mind gains ideas and concepts that we are all familiar with. 

We gain knowledge through our senses

• Touch
• Sight
• Smell
• Taste
• Hear

rationalism

• Strongly believe that knowledge 
• can be gained without experience

Rene descartes

• Believed that knowledge can 
• be gained without experience such as
• Math because you can know addition, 
• subtraction, and the square root without 
• experiencing it.