When a realist investigator gains knowledge of the external world through observation and experience, what type of knowledge is being obtained?
A posteriori knowledge
A posteriori knowledge depends on experience or observation. A priori knowledge is justified independently of such experience. Realism concerns the existence or nature of reality and does not by itself exclude a priori knowledge; the empirical method specified in the question determines the answer.
Important Questions from Western schools of thoughts - Teaching
According to whom, communist society will be at the last stage of the history of man?
Class struggle is a characteristic of which philosophy?
I. Capitalism
II. Marxism
Below are two sets. Set - I mentions thinkers while Set - II consists of schools of thought associated with them. Match the two and choose from the code to indicate your answer.
Set - I
(Thinkers)
Set - II
(Schools of thought)
(a) A.J. Ayer (i) Linguistic analysis (b) Wittgenstein (ii) Logical Positivism (c) Bertrend Russel (iii) Neorealism (d) G.E. Moore (iv) Positive Relativism (v) Logical Empiricism (vi) Logical Atomism Which philosophical approach, developed by thinkers such as William James, interprets ideas by examining their practical consequences in experience?
Which educational philosophy was developed by Morris L. Bigge and presented in his 1971 book subtitled An Emergent Educational Philosophy?
