PHL244H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Billiard Table, Billiard Ball, Empiricism
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We"re analyzing the context of human understanding in hume"s book; in particular, the cause of causation is the study of the way the world is, for us to find it. Not a study of us or how we are. A better understanding of ourselves will allow us to distinguish between problems, issues, and subjects, that we have some hope of tackling proofully, and those subjects, because of our nature, lie beyond our reach. metaphysical or metaphysics, which refers to them lying forever beyond our reach. We get a division of two with subdivisions; impressions and ideas, and the ideas are simple and compound (or non-simple). He called all of these things perceptions of the mind; things we take in through the exercise of the senses, and internal and external senses (this goes along with impression). Emotion or desires go along with external senses, internal senses refer to compound ideas linking together.
