PHIL 1F94 Lecture 1: Jan. 18:16
9 Feb 2016
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If there is no necessity there is no knowledge. If we can only know the way the world is or has been and cannot know the way the world must be- we cannot have knowledge in the robust sense we mean when we speak about knowledge. For hume, the best we get is psychological habit. Remember the billiard balls no necessary causality; just an assumption we organize experience through, i. e. , habit. Hume"s skepticism leads us to subjectivism(relativism). (we will see kant attempts to restore universalism in his response to hume). Now that kant has been woken up from his dogmatic slumber what does he do: returns to thinking bout evasion in the form of critique (special german sense)- But thought all knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it all arises out of experience. (critique of pure reason, 22): we need both;there is a truth to both empiricism and rationalism.
