Terms and Concepts to Remember
about Empiricist Epistemology


  • Aristotle (384-322 BCE) What was his main contribution to Empiricist Epistemology?
  • Teleological
  • John Locke (1632-1704) What was his main contribution to Empiricist Epistemology?
  • Tabula Rasa 
  • Ockham's Razor
  • Johann Kepler
  • Simple and Complex Ideas
  • Particular and General Ideas
  • Primary and Secondary Qualities
  • Locke's View of "Substance"
  • George Berkeley (1685-1753)
  • Sense Data
  • Esse is percipi
  • Idealism
  • The Role of Languaage in Berkeley's Epistemology
  • Locke's and Berkeley's Views on the Source of Sense Data (Causality)
  • David Hume (1711-1776)
  • Analytic Propositions ("Relations of Ideas")
    • Conceptual Truth
    • Tautology
  • Synthetic Propositions
  • Nonsense
  • Causality and Hume's View of "Necessary Connections"
  • Hume's View of the Self
  • Logical Positivism
    • View of Cause
    • Predictions of Future Sense Data
    • Idealsim
    • Monism
    • Behaviorism
  • B.F. Skinner (1904-1990)
  • Noam Chomsky
  • Immanuel Kant
    • Kant's Critique of Empiricism
    • Kant's Critique of Rationalism
    • Categories of the Understanding
  • Richard Rorty