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Knowing that you have taken a philosophy course someone asks you the question but how do you KNOW that something is true and real Rather than being trapped into an answer be smart and give the person some alternative ways of KNOWING Mention the philosophers in Chapter 5 as you talk about their theories as you try to convince your friend that they have something valid to offer You ask How do you KNOW that something is true and real Well that would depend on how you perceive something to be true and real Just because you can see an apple is it sufficient to believe that it is true and real Again it would depend on how you define true and real You might say that just because you can see something it makes it true and real So in other words you depend on your sensory perceptions to verify the realness of something In that case you will fall in the empiricist category of Locke Berkeley and Hume of which they were a part Or you might like to depend on reason more than perception to verify somethings existence so you would be along the general lines of Descartes Or you might like to depend on both rationalism and empiricism and agree more with Kant Locke argued that we use our senses to acquire knowledge If you agree with Locke you would agree that the objects have certain intrinsic distinct qualities that are different from our perception called primary qualities and that objects are capable of existing outside of us Therefore we can use our senses to experience some of their primary qualities Therefore our senses certify that things outside the self exist and provide and accurate picture of those objects Pg 370 7th edition Berkeley proposed that only out minds and ideas exist Therefore for an object to exist it must be perceived Therefore according to him an object does not
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