Understanding Epistemology

Running head: UNDERSTANDING EPISTEMOLOGY
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UNDERSTANDING EPISTEMOLOGY 2
Epistemology
1. a. The word train in the statement stands for succession
b. The events include mental events
2. a.
b. Logical gap involves the lack of fulfillment in the connection between the sufficient and
necessary conditions. The disconnection between mental and other events of different categories
is what is called logical gap (Beth, and Piaget, 2013, p.27). It involves the three logically
different conditions that lack any relationship. The first one involves the mental events which
affect the human subjects. The second one involves the non-mental events which do not happen
in the human subjects while the third one involves the purported non-mental events that cause
the mental events.

UNDERSTANDING EPISTEMOLOGY 3
3. a. The process of systematic doubt according to Descartes involves suspending all what he
used to belief and start doubting everything that one learns through senses or all the posteriori or
empirical knowledge. The reason is that the senses can deceive and one cannot know whether he
has been dreaming or whether an evil genius has been in control of his thinking and deceiving
him over everything (Audi, 2010, p. 361).
b. Descartes conclusion can be discarded as it applies pure reason alone as the key thinking
entity of existence. It involves the rationalist’s stereotypical activity making the statement lack
the enquiry that is experience-based. The claims need to be supported using the events, state of
affairs and entities other than the train of experience and subjectivity of being a logical owner
(Evans, 2013, p. 99). Descartes seems to confuse defining characters and accompanying
characters.
c. Descartes attempt of crossing the logical bridge with the help of God is not successful as he
tries relating two distinct events that are not based on experience.
4. a. empiricism is applied to mean that knowledge involves the use of experience that gained
through the use of senses.
b. the main distinction between the primary and secondary qualities of an object is that primary
qualities stand for the qualities that can be seen as being part of the body such as shape, color,
size, texture and material content (Holyoak, and Morrison, 2012, p. 259). However, the
secondary qualities involve virtual attachments concerning the body in relation to the primary
qualities.
c. Locke used the term ‘idea’ in various ways, primarily to refer to mean mental event or
experiences that involve sense data, or the entities that are believed to produce the experiences
that help one to perceive (Lassiter, and Goodman, 2015, p. 129).