PHILOS 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Billiard Ball, Regular Sequence, Sense Data
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Berkley thinks that the involuntary but orderly features of our sensory ideas hold in virtue of god, who determines and controls our minds. Unlike locke, berkley attempts to explain our experience by appeal to the. But if we take "god" out from berkley"s explanation and replace it with "world" and "causal relation" then we can see that locke and berkley are claiming the same thing. For hume, a causal relation is nothing but an event regularly accompanying another event. I hit a billiard ball with a cue that causes the movement of another billiard ball. In short, for hume, causation is a mere regularity grounded by induction. Given hume"s notion of causation, can a natural law (ex. Hume claims that locke"s justification for the epistemic power of sensory perception begs the question. A causal relation between x and y is explained by our sensory impressions on x and y.
