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I will begin by considering what apriori knowledge and then intuition and deduction are. On the basis of this I will explain how Descartes argues we can gain a priori knowledge through intuition and deduc...

Utilitarianism is classically understood as the theory that actions are right in so far as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.  Therefore, the right act...

The tripartite view of knowledge defines propositional knowledge as justified true belief. Edmund Gettier famously contested this definition by providing a series of counter examples which show that there...

Utilitarianism is a consequentialist normative ethical theory. Consequentialist theories hold that an action is right insofar as it creates the best possible consequences. For utilitarians, the best possi...

Rationalism claims, that the information we gain is independent from our external experience (i.e. the senses). they use deduction as a scientific method. Deduction means, that we form a complex ideas by ...