PP111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: General Order, Empirical Evidence, Noumenon
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Unit 10: mind, language, and the construction of. Reality: video: "does the mind shape the world?" Kant was struck by the power of hume"s claim that reason is impotent to direct our lives. If, as hume argued, it is not reason which enables us to cope with the world, but habit or custom, then our ideas about the world do not qualify as genuine knowledge. On this matter, both hume and kant agreed. But where hume was content to live with his scepticism, kant sought to avoid scepticism and to explain how human knowledge is still possible. If, as the empiricists insisted, the only source of knowledge is experience, then the world as we know it will be fragmentary and chaotic. Each individual experience will come to us unrelated to previous experiences, and the general or universal patterns that science relies on will not be found.
