The first thing that is gonna be described here is the grand philosophy of epistemology. Also known as the Theory of Knowledge, epistemology is a good place to start off SNARKnotes: Philosophy. Why? Because we’re proving that we know nothing.
What is knowing? We use the verb “to know” frequently, in all sorts of situations, but does it mean what we think it means? When we say that “I know what a cat is” we mean that we understand the qualities of a cat, and we believe what we think. But do we KNOW what a cat is?
Well, this question has been around for a while, and epistemology has branched off into a few schools of thought. Rationalists see the primary source of knowledge to be reason. Empiricists see the primary source of knowledge to be sense data. This second group implements something called the “blank slate”, and we’ll get into that in a little while.
There are two more terms to dump in this little prologue, and one of them is priori knowledge-knowledge that is independent of sense data- and posteriori knowledge, which comes ONLY from sense data.
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