PHILOS 122 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Barry Stroud, Fred Dretske, Thematic Relation
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Dretske: laws cannot be understood as universal generalizations. We must have some idea of something other than a mere coincidence -- need the idea of connection to for reasonable beliefs. Laws say more about the world than universal generalizations. Laws of mechanics transcend facts about the particular occurrences. If a ball were to be hit, then it would move (e. g. : things seen to happen are describable in causal terms. What we can see and know depends on what concepts we have. Think about what concepts (and expectations we have): need richer conception of perception. We can still have illusory perception -- requires we have a capacity to perceive things in a certain way: reasons for your beliefs in others are different reasons for belief in your own feeling. What is it for us to know that we feel such-and-such: russell: we need to take into account our own thoughts and feelings intervening in the argument, i know i feel pain.
