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A 7 page overview of knowledge, its variations and the manner that we acquire it. Reviews the contentions of several major philosophers regarding knowledge and details the differences in the inductive and deductive processes. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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To Benedict Spinoza, a philosopher that is remembered as one of the most notable rationalists of the Western world, the way that we acquire knowledge was controlled by God
himself. G.W. Leibniz, in turn, concurred that our acquisition of knowledge was determined on a spiritual level as well. Leibniz contended that many spiritual forces was involved in
that control and that each has a center of force which can differ from the centers of other forces. Leibniz refers to these centers as monads, indestructible forces except
at the hand of God himself. In effect the debate over how we acquire knowledge and how knowledge differs can be broken into two broad camps of dissent.
Spinoza and Leibniz were members of one of these camps, the rationalists. They believed that some knowledge was not derived from our interaction with the world, from our experience,
but rather from a spiritual plane. The other camp, of course, was comprised by empiricists. Empiricists hold that knowledge is obtained through "sensory, experiential, or empirical interaction with
the world" (Wilson, 1999). Most that have considered the topic of knowledge recognize the role of the human mind in knowledge
acquisition. They believe that information can be acquired both inductively and deductively. Inductive reasoning is not based on science or experiment but instead on generalities and assumptions.
When inductive reasoning is employed assumptions are based on psychological calculations and past experiences. The process of induction, therefore, is largely a process of intuition but it is also
a process which is most readily equated with empirical view of knowledge. Deduction, as will be elucidated on below, takes a different process in knowledge acquisition.
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