- A Priori - knowledge before experience.
- This idea is similar to Descartes 'I think therefore I am'
- The Opposite of Descartes is Locke who thought that the mind is a blank slate. This can relate to the theory of Noam Chomsky.
- Induction = basing generalised ideas on things. This needs experience first. Therefore Induction is after experience.
- Deduction = the rephrasing of something
- A solopsist believes that only you exist.
- Ontological = God is perfect. Because he is perfect, he must exist.
- Cosmological = Something must have caused it. Keep going back and back (on cause cause)
- Teleological = Things happening for a reason. We are heading somewhere.
- Non Teleological = Things JUST happening for a reason.
Cartesian Dualism = the mind and body are separate.
Evil Demon - Descartes - It is deceiving
You can't know something is really there.
You can't trust the outside world.
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