AQA A-Level Philosophy 4.1.1 Epistemology overview quiz quiz

Truth, certainty and reliability

Truth, belief and justification

Belief, justification and infallibility

Truth, evidence and intuition

That the belief condition is not actually necessary at all for someone to possess knowledge

That the truth condition is not really necessary for someone to possess genuine knowledge

That justified true belief is not sufficient for knowledge

That the justification condition is not in fact necessary for a person to count as knowing

The reliabilist account of knowledge

Infallibilism about justification

Virtue epistemology

The no false lemmas condition

Mind-dependent sense-data caused by and representing objects

Mind-independent physical objects themselves, perceived completely directly with nothing in between

Nothing at all, since on this view ordinary perception turns out to be entirely impossible for us

Ideas that exist only in the mind of God and are communicated directly to each perceiver by him

To exist is to be material

To exist is to be perceived

To perceive is to be deceived

To exist is to be caused

Every impression we have is a faint copy of some prior idea already present in the mind

All of our knowledge is ultimately a copy of the innate ideas we are born already possessing

Every simple idea is a copy of a prior impression

Ideas and impressions are wholly identical to one another and cannot be told apart at all

A posteriori

Synthetic

Contingent

A priori

The evil demon

The unreliability of the senses

The dreaming argument

The cogito

Local scepticism is concerned only with the past, whereas global scepticism is concerned only with the future

Local scepticism doubts one domain of belief; global scepticism threatens all or nearly all knowledge

Local scepticism is just ordinary everyday doubt, whereas global scepticism is a special kind of philosophical doubt

There is no real difference between the two and the terms are simply used interchangeably by philosophers

That an external physical world exists independently of his own mind

That a perfect and non-deceiving God exists prior to any other belief

The cogito: that he, as a thinker, exists

That the truths of mathematics are certain and beyond all possible doubt