PHIL 200 Lecture 8: HUME
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Phil 200, professor filotas (hume review: according to hume"s empiricism, everything in the mind originates in impressions. (you could also use the term experience, but hume uses impressions. ) Gravity causing a pen to fall to the floor. Is there a connection between 1 and 3: yes. Because it is custom, as past experiences have told you, for the pen to fall to the floor. While descartes is a rationalist, hume is a skeptic: he does not think that natural science can be rationally justified. Merleau-ponty agrees that: we have direct access to experiences experiences are the starting point of understanding the world. But disagrees with descartes on the last point. Instead, merleau-ponty offers the idea of the phenomenological method which states: aside from what you think you know regarding learning, knowing, etc. you have to examine what things actually feel like: example. Time is usually regarded in three parts: the past, the present, and the future.
