Looking back at the chapter in philosophy on Reason and Experience is a good start for revision. The empiricist claims that knowledge is all about experience, everything known and thought comes from Full Article

Most the Philosophy lessons have been made up with revising the module on Reason and Experience since we started back after New Year so all the information is already on here.  Having said that it Full Article

Rationalism and Empiricism Descartes and Plato are rationalists – as are Leibniz and Spinoza, what do they have in common? Hume, Locke and JS Mill are Empiricists.  What do they have in Full Article

Innate Ideas Part 1 here Numbers We never experience numbers directly though we can see evidence of them The empiricists thought we worked out numbers from experience, like counting apples We can Full Article

Reason v Experience Thoughts without concept are empty; intuition without concepts are blind. This quote from Kant gives his view that both reason and experience are necessary for knowledge. Yet the Full Article

Does the concept of simple ideas make sense? A unicorn can be divided into different concepts but which of them are simple? Is the mane simple?  Probably not, because it is made up of hairs. Are Full Article

Descartes was a rationalist Hume was an empiricist Descartes thought the idea of God is innate Hume thought the idea of God comes from experience Descartes tried to find certainty using the method of Full Article

Some beliefs are foundational.  They are the least open to doubt and they provide a solid foundation for other beliefs. Descartes foundation was cogito ergo sum.  What does this mean and how could Full Article

A phrase that says the same thing twice, to reiterate again. In philosophy, a necessary truth.  All bachelors are unmarried. There are ten tautologies in the following paragraph I spent £100 Full Article

Hume states that we can never see a cause.  We might see one billiard ball hit another and the second ball move away but that is not the same thing.  All knowledge must come from sense impressions, Full Article