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The Philosophical Journey, 2/e
William Lawhead, The University of Mississippi
The Search for Knowledge
Rationalism
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1
The
are those who hold that our fundamental knowledge of reality is grounded in reason.
2
Inborn ideas that are in the mind even before experience are called
ideas.
3
In a Platonic dialologue entitled the
, Socrates asks a young boy a series of geometrical questions in order to awaken the mathematical knowledge within the boy.
4
According to Plato, particulars are perpetually changing, but Forms/Ideas, which in your text are called
, are the unchanging foundations of reality.
5
Descartes believed that in order to move from knowledge of his own mind to knowledge of physical objects he first had to demonstrate the existence of
.
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