reason and experience
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- Created by: emera
- Created on: 11-04-14 12:49
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- reason and experience
- mind as a tabula rasa
- hume: origin of ideas
- ideas/concepts are copies of sense impressions in the memory
- if no impressions are found, the idea doesn't exist (empiricist principle)
- we reflect on sense impressions to form concepts
- complex concepts (ideas) can be broken down into simple ideas and traced to previous experiences, eg: God.
- there are simple and complex ideas and impressions.
- knowledge is justified apriori
- FLAWS
- hume claims sense experience is exclusive, i.e. only I can experience Y sense impressioons
- exclusivity can lead to 3 problems:
- problem of communication: i cant have an idea of someone elses sense impressions; i cant know that they are the same as mine.
- scepticism: i can only know MY sense impressions; i cant be sure that the external world exists.
- solipsism: i can only be sure of MY mind and MY existence.
- exclusivity can lead to 3 problems:
- not all complex ideas relate to past experience; eg, Beauty; as it has no substance and is subjectie.
- hume claims sense experience is exclusive, i.e. only I can experience Y sense impressioons
- ideas/concepts are copies of sense impressions in the memory
- LOCKE: origin of ideas.
- all our ideas come from experience
- me must acquire concepts before we have any knowledge.
- it is impossible to have knowledge prior to or independant of experience.
- humans dont have innate ideas; our mind is a blank slate.
- all ideas we come to have are a result of experience
- for example, the idea of god varies between cultures(eg what he looks like, how many there are etc.)
- shows that ideas of god come from different things we have been exposed to
- some people who have not been exposed to this have no idea of god at all
- shows that ideas of god come from different things we have been exposed to
- for example, the idea of god varies between cultures(eg what he looks like, how many there are etc.)
- all ideas we come to have are a result of experience
- hume: origin of ideas
- innate knowledge
- necessary and contingent truths
- mind as a tabula rasa
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