Empiricists believe that experience is the basis of both our knowledge (a posteriori) and understanding
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- EMPIRICISM
- DAVID HUME
- aware that causation meant trouble for empiricists, the notion that one thing necessarily causes another sounds like a prior?
- When we see a brick flying towards a window we know the window will break?
- Hume insists there is no necessity here
- we expect it because we have observed this particular constant conjuction in the past
- Hume insists there is no necessity here
- Causation then, is a habit of the mind, and necessity is an illusion caused by expectations
- necessity is something that exists in the mind, not in objects
- When we see a brick flying towards a window we know the window will break?
- another point is ethics. We know Plato ws a thief by observing him but how could we observe wrongness of his act?
- Hume deals with this by insisting that we feel morality as an inner experience
- Thus, we have an experience of wrongness merely by feeling an emotional repulsion to the act
- if moral principles cant be self evident, its only natural that empiricists look for criteria for morality
- Thus, we have an experience of wrongness merely by feeling an emotional repulsion to the act
- Hume deals with this by insisting that we feel morality as an inner experience
- aware that causation meant trouble for empiricists, the notion that one thing necessarily causes another sounds like a prior?
- JOHN LOCKE 1632-1704
- rejects innate ideas
- They may be unknown to children and idiots
- These groups may then only discover ideas by reasoning from their experience
- He claims that entire nations have been and are still ignorant of God
- There is no universal agreement concerning these innate principles
- They may be unknown to children and idiots
- rejects innate ideas
- its adherents point to its relevance to the observable world
- In some sense the reality in our minds must be a representation of the outside world
- They deny the existence of a priori ideas and are hostile towards metaphysics.
- We are born a blank slate or 'Tabula Rasa'
- Empiricists believe that experience is the basis of both our knowledge (a posteriori) and understanding
- DAVID HUME
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