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Your responses should also demonstrate how you have applied, or could apply, the material in your own experiences. Use complete sentences and good grammar, double-spacing, 12 point font and one inch margins. Please check and edit your writing before submitting your Discussion Question response. Be sure to cite your resources and provide the references using APA format. Remember to reference all work cited or quoted by the text authors.
Based on reading from 3-1 complete and submit
1) This chapter lists the 4 classic sources of knowledge: the senses, authority, reason, and intuition. But what about other sources? Can you think if still other sources that should be given serious consideration.
2) On pg 165(see marginal quote) Zeno the Eleatic confronts us with one of his mind-boggling logical paradoxes. How would you resolve this one?
Based on reading from 3-2 complete and submit
1) Pg 173-179: Numerous phenomena that appear to be a part the real world turn out to be experiences only and have no real status. Do you personally have any trouble accepting these fact-claims as true? Why?
2) After studying the human “visual window: through which we see reality, how would you describe the real world to: (1) a person who has been blind from birth? (2) a highly intelligent alien from another planet who “sees” wavelengths only in the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum,? (3) a fellow epistemologist who is acutely aware, as you are, of our severe human perceptual limitations?
Based on reading from 3-3 complete and submit
1) Could we do away entirely with our habit of classifying? What benefits would we gain by eliminating the habit? What would we lose? What is the answer to the problem?
2) “All thinking is symbolic”. Explain why and how this is so. What are the implications of this fact for our understanding of the real world?
Based on reading from 3-4 complete and submit
1) Describe the use of the correspondence test. Under what specific conditions can it be used? What are its principal weaknesses? Can you think of any steps we can take to increase its degree of accuracy?
2) Describe the use if the pragmatic truth-test as it applies to the development of hypotheses to account for empirical events (such as the nonworking computer). In what ways must we be wary of its misuse?
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