PHLA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Empiricism, Subjective Idealism
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Lecture 17 - locke and berkeley an essay concerning human understanding & principles of human knowledge. John locke: political philosopher, american hero, british empiricist, materialist. Tabula rasa: are minds are a blank sheet of paper waiting to ll up with information, all the ideas in our mind come from experience; sensory (5 senses) Things that exists = ideas, minds, physical objects (3 things that exists) The veil of ideas: external world realism? b. Locke can"t really tell what the physical objects really are. Primary vs secondary qualities: primary qualities (objectives; 3" 5 , secondary qualities (subjective; brown, smooth, hard, etc ) Claim: esse is percipi ~ to exist is to be perceived. That is wrong accordingly to barkley, physical objects does not stand in the equation (ideas = mind) I just proved to you that physical objects exist. Barkeley response is that well that was in your mind. Proof: try to conceive of such an object.
