PSYC85H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Contiguity, Retina, Reductio Ad Absurdum
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How are we deceived: these questions are related to the problems of sense-perception, memory, imagination and thinking. Experience not revelation is the source of knowledge. So they sought natural laws of knowing that fit with the natural laws of the physical sciences. This is a reference to the innate ideas of plato and descartes: 2. The empiricist and associationist traditions have had the greatest impact on modern experimental psychology and made perception the primary problem in psychology. Man was born in conditions of mutual warfare and enlightened selfishness alone brought them into agreement with their fellows. John locke (1632 - 1704: locke was an influential english philosopher. In epistemology, he has often been classified as a british empiricist, along with david hume and george. Ideas are the units of mind - the unit of mental contents - analogous to material elements. (e. g. , whiteness, hardness, thinking, motion, man) Ideas are logical constructs or concepts or meanings or items of knowledge .
