Language Questions




Michael Kadish
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1) Distinguish between experience and propositional knowledge.

Experience is everything we do or have done, while propositional knowledge is the ability to describe everything we've done, have had done, or have never done.

2) What are the conditions required for propositional knowledge?

Propositional knowledge must be offered for description

3) What are the kinds of evidence or justification that might be claimed for a propositional knowledge claim?

An example of propositional knowledge might be the description account of a trip, or the lurid, touching moment of a sexual experience.


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4) What constraints are present wwhen dealing with sensory experience as a source for propositional knowledge

When using our senses, we have been taught to infer. This inflates our propositional knowledge

5) Distinguish between primary and secondary qualities.

Qualities which exist from opinion, or from an outsider are secondary qualities. Primary qualities come from the source directly.

6) What is sense data?

Sense data is that which is instantly revealed, directly apprehended


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7) Explain what is meant by seeing as?

All seeing is seeing as all seeing as contexts, experience, concepts, experience, and interpretation

8) Why can't there be an innocent eye?

As long as it is seen, perceptions are concieved, therefore, there is no innocent perception.

9) What problem is solved by perception

Perception solves the question of "What is this?" something most likelty responsive

10) What role does cultural conditioning play in perception?

Cultural conditioning describes the reality of a person's, or people's situation.

11) Explain what is meant by hearing as.

Interpretation of sound relies on our interpretation, we understand what a person might say, but not what is told.

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