School of Thought

EMPIRICIS RATIONALIS SUBJECTIVIS SKEPTICIS PRAGMATIS

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Source of - Knowledge Knowledge is It affirms that the It is based on Knowledge is
kwnoledge comes from acquired through source of the doubt fallible and that
sensory reason, without knowledge and of extended to all the beliefs we
experience the aid of the any truth things, have are subject
- Empiricism senses. dependent on sensations, to doubt.
emphasizes Mathematical each person. phenomena or Pragmatists hold
the role of knowledge is the this truth is not events that that knowing is
empirical best example of unique or absolute, present to the an ongoing
evidence in the this, since but varies as we conscience, process of inquiry
formation of through rational said depending on and that that relies on
ideas, rather thought alone we the person in considers that experience and
than innate can plumb the question. all information evidence we
ideas or depths of must be want to have our
traditions. numerical supported by knowledge
relations, evidence. checked by the
construct proofs, force of
and deduce ever experience.
more complex
mathematical
concepts.
Characteristic Opposes the In Epistemology, Is the doctrine that Is the attitude of It considers
claims of Rationalism is the "our own mental doubting practical
s activity is the only consequences or
authority, dogmatic theory knowledge
intuition, which holds that unquestionable fact claims set forth real effects to be
imaginative knowledge is of our experience", in various vital components
conjecture, acquired through instead of shared or areas. ... of both meaning
and abstract, rational, or communal, and that Skeptics have and truth. At its
theoretical, or logical, reflection there is no external challenged the simplest,
or objective truth. ... something is true
systematic on innate ideas. adequacy or
only insofar as it
reasoning as A core tenet of reliability of works.
sources of Rationalism is the these claims by
reliable belief. belief that the asking what
-empiricism in senses are principles they
education unreliable are based upon
focus on sources of or what they
learning by information since actually
exploration they often establish.
deceive us.
Field of -For education, The aim of Subjectivism limits Skepticism hold Education should
empiricism education should the validity of the s that one be teaching
education be the mastery of
meant that truth to the subject should refrain students the
learning comes thinking and who knows, it from making things that are
about only judgment rather judges mainly truth claims, and practical for life
through than the mere according to its avoid the and encourages
experience. If assimilation of understanding and postulation of them to grow into
the child and facts. in consideration of final truths. better people.
the tutor share its specific reality Pragmatists
a kind of environment and believe in the
conduct, then social interaction idea of practical
the child will understood not as learning,
have learned an external fact but education should
the habits of as a constitutive apply to the real
character and part of the subject, world.
mind that are it affirms that
necessary for knowledge is only
education to possible in a
continue. limited way.