Empiricism Flashcards
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662720785 | empiricism | how we come to know through senses | 0 | |
662720786 | primary qualities | qualities everyone agrees on, (size, shape, weight) | 1 | |
662720787 | secondary qualities | sensation that depends on individual interpretation | 2 | |
662720788 | impression | initial sense experience, building blocks of ideas | 3 | |
662720789 | idea | impressions we reflected on, learned | 4 | |
662720790 | sensation | impressions (modern term) | 5 | |
662720791 | interpretation | viewpoint, perception taken from | 6 | |
662720792 | figure and ground | figure is the main object, ground is the background | 7 | |
662720793 | visual grouping | the way we come to group objects that makes sense | 8 | |
662720794 | secondary confirmation | confirming something using more than one sense | 9 | |
662720795 | coherence | make logical sense (coherent) | 10 | |
662720796 | independent testimony | secondary confirmation of an experience | 11 | |
662720797 | common sense realism | what is real is what we believe to be real | 12 | |
662720798 | scientific realism | world described by science is the real world | 13 | |
662720799 | phenomenalism | the physical world cannot be proven to be existing, only a perception of it | 14 |