WEEK 3

Question 1

empiricism

Answer 1

1. all concepts Originate in experience
2. all concepts are About/applicable to things that can be experienced
3. Rationally acceptable beliefs are knowable only through experience

Question 2

necessity

Answer 2

proved that something is true because could not be otherwise

Question 3

a priori

Answer 3

• something which can be known independent of any experience other than learning the language
• e.g. all bachelors are unmarried

Question 4

analyticity

Answer 4

• statement whose truth depends on the meaning of its consituent terms
• e.g. ophthamologists are doctors