Philosophy test 2

Academic Skepticism

Knowledge is Impossible and skepticism to building foundations

Pyrrhonian skepticism:

We cannot know everything for sure, and we must, therefore, withhold judgment on knowledge

Global Skepticism

Skepticism Effects knowledge as a whole (not trusting police for how they treated other people)

Local Skepticism

Skepticism effects Specific events (history, what you ate, amnesia)

Pluto’s allegory of a cave example

Three prisoners are chained up and all they see is the wall of the cave. One of the prisoners escape and sees the real world and see’s that the showdowns he seen on the wall isn’t real.  But the other prisoners don’t believe him. This represents philosophers. 

Correspondence 

Truth is an object relation between beliefs and extramental reality 

Coherences

a proposition or belief is true if it is coherent with other accepted beliefs

Pragmatic

if acting on a belief satisfies our expectations