PHL 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Foundationalism, Tabula Rasa, Coherentism
12 Oct 2016
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Meditation 2 descartes: logically impossible to doubt i exist , the evil demon is deceiving me about my existence, actually, i don"t exist, the demon is just getting me to think that logically contradictory in itself. Things that can"t be doubted: i exist, i am thinking, i am having experiences. Logically possible: there is no physical world, piece of wax has properties you can experience. Solid: heats wax; same wax still there but all different properties. Liquid: cools wax; same wax and properties change. There"t not 1 experienced property that persists through all the changes. The wax itself remains- persists through changes like us. Our ideas and knowledge come from experience. Our mind is originally a blank slate at birth. (p1) in order to know s you have to have a reason r for believing s to be true (r does not equal s) Regress problem (reason train: s< r< r"< r < r" < reason in nity.
