Philosophy 1020 Lecture 4: Russell’s Reply to Hume – Philosophy Tutorial Notes

• School: Western University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: Philosophy 1020
• Professor: Dennis Klimchuk

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Russell"s reply to hume philosophy tutorial notes. Begins by drawing a distinction between universals by particulars and universals by relations. Hume says that we cannot simply imagine white in our minds, we must think of a thing that is white, and then we attribute the particular of whiteness to that object. Hume says there are not forms, there is only experience ie a chair that is blue, when we think about blue, we may think of a blue chair; the chair stands in for the blueness. We don"t take in any of the chair characteristics, however the colour, we recognize as blue. Plato says that a universal is a form a thing that exists in our world that represents the absolute version of the abstraction which we are talking about. In the world, things take on properties of the forms.