PHIL102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Tabula Rasa
3 Nov 2016
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Phil 102 empiricism: metaphysics, locke"s limited realism. > perception (empirical experience") is the process of sensing unsensible or imperceptible particles, that our brain/mind translates into ideas, the majority of which do not reflect actual properties of objects. When you receive the images you may sense some qualities that are not originally in the objects. (your mind makes things up): hume"s skepticism, rigorous empiricist (he thought of himself as more rigorous than locke. He was extremely strict about believing that we derive the ideas from our five senses). > all our ideas are nothing but copies of our sense impressions (p. 41): necessary connection. There is never an impression of necessity: causes are not sensed, reflection. > our will can"t control all of our bodily functions: imagination (when you have a thought > causal connection > produces an idea). As if i am creating out of nothing. > creation ex nihilo - creation out of nothing.
