SFII-UF 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nevermind
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Candle- locke trying to modest- more modest than the previous period of medieval thought. We can"t really have full sunlight- it"s not like we can see and know everything god can see and knows. There"s no connection between anything and anything else- there is no warrant for causality, substance. There"s stuff in the world - then there"s your senses- then mind- then ideas of these things. Imprinting/stamping- crude but cru- cial of how get from out there to in here. The non verbal part is the slash mind/body self/world. The connection between all things becomes questionable just as the connection between body and mind. Blue is everywhere- so many places that aren"t objects. The word carrot represents the ac- tual vegetable. A person who"s asleep is not thinking and perceiving. You could say you"re sensing things in your sleep but you aren"t there. You aren"t aware of what you are sensing around you in real life.