Knowledge

Knowledge is Both Rational and Empirical

Main aspects of knowledge

• Through all of our knowledge begins with experiences

• Some knowledge is priori and some are posteriori

• For example: mathematical & geometric judgments are synthetic a priori.

Knowledge is Both Rational and Empirical

Distinction Between Pure & Empirical Knowledge

Knowledge is Both Rational and Empirical

Examples

• “Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty” – Will Durant

• Natural science such as physics contest a priori synthetic judgment as principles

• A statement can be priori but also synthetic • For example – in all changes of the material world . The

quantity of matter remains on changed and that in all communication of motion , action and reaction must always be equal.

Knowledge is Both Rational and Empirical

The highest principle of all analytic judgment

• Francis Bacon said that “The universe is not to be a narrowed down to the limits of the understanding , but the understanding must be stretched and larger to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered”

• Will Durant said that , “your mind is a jail , it can never know how much of the object it knows is in the object , or in the mind that ‘knows’ / such are the sensations whose verdict gives you ‘truth’.

Knowledge is Both Rational and Empirical

Knowledge & Ideas

According to Locke, the world bombards the mind with sensations, and the mind filters these sensations into “ideas.”

Locke distinguishes two types of ideas. Simple and complex

Knowledge is Both Rational and Empirical

Truth About Knowledge

Knowledge is Both Rational and Empirical

Knowledge is Rational & Empirical

Knowledge is Both Rational and Empirical

Thanks

Knowledge is Both Rational and Empirical