Philosophy A-Level
Certainty and foundationalism
What Certainty and foundationalism means in Philosophy A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Certainty and foundationalism
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The status of the cogito as a priori and foundational, which empiricists dispute rather than deny the occurrence of thought.
Topics that use Certainty and foundationalism
- Reason as a source of knowledge (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- A priori knowledge of existence
- Copy principle
- Empiricism
- Hume's Fork
- Intuition
- Leibniz and necessary truths
- Plato's theory of recollection
- Proof of the external world
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