(Student produced study guide from Foss, Foss, and Trapp )
characterized by the use of the scientific method and based on
the presumption that we (people) can know objectively and
comprehend the objects around us. (146) forms of understanding
from which reality is to be deduced. (146) refers to the
philosophical movement and is not based on the problem of
existence, but deals with the problem of words, and the ways of
rhetorically thinking and speaking that were perfected as a way
of philosophizing in the 15th Century. (147) deals with
scientific objectivity, universality, and rational deduction
over other ways of knowing the world. (148) Cogito ergo sum: "I
think; therefore I am." This is a self- evident axiom and is
based on the human power to apprehend reality by means of
reason. (146) what in essence, separates the human being from
the animal. (149) ability to make adjustments in nature simply
because we are humans. (149) the basic process by which humans
gain control over nature; refers to a basic capaci