HPS250H1 Lecture : hps250h lecture 2.doc

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He says: all synthetic general propositions are based on experience summed up by induction. Wrote a book called an essay (ie. we observe, we fix, we generalize) Bacon and locke both thought the two problems had solutions! He says that: nature is an open book (go out, experiment with it, you cannot be wrong) (ie. whoever reads nature with an open mind (no predjudices, see things the way they are) cannot be wrong. When we read it with a pure mind, we cannot misread it . Hence the name: veracitas naturae (latin for truthfulness of nature). What follows is a version thereof, based on natural selection (modified, a future one ie. bacon did not insist his idea was on natural selection) It follows from this theory that our senses are trustworthy: they capture those properties of things which are essential for our survival. The problem of sensations is not a serious obstacle.

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