Philosophy Reason and Experience
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- Reason and Experience
- Empiricism
- 'It is not possible to gain substantive knowledge a priori'
- Hume
- Distinction between impressions (livell and forceful) and ideas
- Ideas are copies of impressions
- No ideas can exist without experience
- Missing shade of blue
- One exception would disprove the rule
- Blind man has no idea of colour
- Any 'original' ideas are just combining sense impressions. (golden mountain)
- We have an idea of God - something we can't experience
- The idea of God is derived from our sence experience, the qualities in man exagerated and without limits
- We have an idea of God - something we can't experience
- No ideas can exist without experience
- This is a weak distinction
- Ideas are copies of impressions
- Hume's Fork
- Knowledge is either a matter of fact (synthetic, a posteriori, contingent), or relation of ideas (analytic, a priori, necessary).
- Distinction between impressions (livell and forceful) and ideas
- Locke
- The mind at birth is a 'Tabula Rasa'
- Hume
- 'It is not possible to gain substantive knowledge a priori'
- Empiricism
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