Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Monadology
18 Dec 2015
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From last lecture: two kinds of claims of arguments or kinds or sources of knowledge: a priori and a posteriori. Literally: from what came before" and what came after". Priori: from past knowledge and understanding you come to the conclusion. A posteriori: knowledge gained from observing the event/occasion. The world is too awful to be a product of design". Our reasoning"s are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false: 32. If there is something, there is something that accounts for it it did not just happen (15 min in: 53. Thus the actual existence of the best that wisdom makes known to. God is due to this, that his goodness makes him choose it, and his power makes him produce it.
