Across
- 2. a map of beliefs and practices through which a group of people try to make sense of reality
- 5. a collection of works considered by scholars to be the most important and influential
- 9. a person with specialist skills and/or knowledge
- 10. the quality of being fair and impartial
- 11. sings that you can see, hear, experience or read to support the truth of an assertion
- 15. the use of robots and machine systems to replace human work
- 16. the negation of a thesis
- 17. conforming to accepted moral standards
- 20. a figure of speech in which words are used to say one thing and mean the opposite
- 21. belief in absolute truth and absolute cultural, religious, political and moral standards against which all other views can be judged
- 22. generally refers to conclusive evidence, leaving little place for doubt
- 23. a confident opinion; something thought to be true
- 24. clear, made obvious, openly expressed
Down
- 1. genuine, conforming to acknowledged standards
- 3. often described as the “philosophy of knowledge,” interrogates what we know and the mechanisms behind our understanding
- 4. to prove something to be false
- 6. the branch of philosophy that studies beauty and the arts; principles concerned with beauty and artistic taste
- 7. a form of peer pressure which leads everyone in a group to think in the same way
- 8. an attitude of doubt; a method of obtaining knowledge through systematic doubt and continual testing
- 11. an account or statement that makes something clear
- 12. the ability to imagine and understand the feelings and viewpoint of another person
- 13. the philosophical study of how we know what we know, and the exploration of the difference between justified belief and opinion
- 14. a generalised description of observations about a relationship between two or more things in the natural world
- 15. outside the scope of morality; lacking any moral framework
- 18. prejudice, unfairness, favouritism, one-sided preference
- 19. the theory suggests that sensory experience is the primary source of knowledge