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MOORE’S REFUTATION Moore believes that contrary to Descartes’ refutation, which I have glossed over for practical reasons, there is no need to appeal to God to prove that the outer world exists. To prove thi...

Jackson's knowledge argument aims to refute Physicalism (the philosophical position that everything which exists is no more extensive than its physical properties, and that the only existing substance is phy...

In epistemology, there are two main schools of thought: the rationalist and the empiricist approach. The rationalist (like Descartes) believes that our main source of knowledge is reasoning and self-reflecti...

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...