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Empiricism is the view that knowledge is acquired through sense experience. According to Hume's empirism, concepts or 'ideas' are formed in the mind from directly perceived impressions. These concepts are fu...

Simply defined, a priori knowledge is knowledge that is gained from ones mind with full emancipation from the body and the senses. A posteriori knowledge is empirically drawn from experiences and senses. Tho...

The Logical Problem of Evil, also known as The Inconsistent Triad, is an argument against God's existence that tries to show that the existence of evil is logically inconsistent with the existence of a God w...

A non-cognitivist theory of ethical language is one that denies that ethical statements are propositions which express truth or falsity. Emotivism is the theory of ethical language that holds that ethical st...

Arguments from Empiricism do support Berkeley’s Idealism as a theory of perception. This is because Berkeley’s Idealism is in itself an argument from Empiricism. To understand this it is important to see Ber...