Theories of where knowledge comes from.
#1Rationalism-knowledge comes from reason.
-Descartes(Dee-cart),Plato,Stoics.
#2Empiricism-knowledge somes through the senses.
-Hume,Locke.
A Priori- Independent of sense experience
A Posteriore-Dependent on sense experience
Analytic Truth-The predicate is contained in the subject.
Synthetic Truth-The predicate is not contained in the subject.

Analytic / Synthetic
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A Prori- Logic / Presuppositions
Definitions / of science
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A Posteriori- NONE / YES

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Skepticism-knowledge is not possible- or very hard to come by.
-Academic skepticism-knowledge is very rare.
-Pyrrhonian skepticism- you can't even
know that you don't know anything.
(radical skepticism.)
Goals:
#1Goal of skepticism
-inner peace and tranquility
#2Goal of Stoics
-knowledge of metaphysics brings inner peace and happiness.(religious dogmatists.)

-Parable of the arrow;
-;basically that metaphysics is a waste of time.