PHILOS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Three Steps
23 Mar 2015
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Contrary is always logically possible, even if false. We can"t get knowledge about matters of fact by a mere analysis of de nitions. The relation of cause and e ect is not a relation of ideas. Cause and e ect is a matter of fact. Knowledge of cause and e ect depends on experience. It is not a relation of ideas because it involves physical things. Revolves around experiencing what exists in the world. Even with 1 million data points, it"s still only 1 million observations of particular cases. Experience never shows us all, but knowledge requires it. So, a is b the iron we have examined under many conditions has always been an electrical conductor. So, iron (all of it, even the bits we have not sampled) is an electrical conductor. There can only be knowledge of fact if we know a principle. Observation of a ower vs an idea of it.
