PHIL 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 161-181: Rationality, Relativism, Episteme
16 Nov 2016
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There is an external world existing independently of us. Each person is in direct contact only with the contents of that perso(cid:374)"s o(cid:449)(cid:374) (cid:373)i(cid:374)d. Hume emerges from his study with the most negative of conclusions. We cannot know the answers to any of these questions. The most basic principles of our everyday knowledge as well as the most important guiding principles of our lives are without justification. There are only 2 kinds of truth. Every justifiable true statement is either: (cid:862)truth of reaso(cid:374)(cid:863) (cid:894)priori(cid:895, (cid:862)matter of fa(cid:272)t(cid:863) (cid:894)e(cid:373)pirical) He did not doubt that out knowledge begins with experience and that what we know directly are out own ideas and experiences. Principle of universal causality everything happens has a cause. Hume argues that we learn entirely from experience, not on the basis of reason. Knowledge of causes and effects is a matter of experience, not reason. We do not learn the principle of universal causality from experience.
