PHILOS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Tangerine, Contiguity, Episteme
30 Mar 2016
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Initiates a movement of criticism of metaphysics. Metaphysics is seeking unknowable information, so it is not science. Hume does not want to find answers to the questions that aristotle was asking, rather he believes we need to change the question. Replaces metaphysics with a science of human nature. Epistemology: the philosophical theory of knowledge (episteme: greek, knowledge") Impression: immediate content of sensory experience, all perceptions, sensations and feelings. Example: think of a tangerine- this is an idea, a memory of the fruit. If you are really holding/opening/eating a tangerine right now that would be an impression. Critical rule: to clarify the meaning of an idea, trace it back to the original impression from which it derives. Association of ideas: three principles: resemblance, contiguity in space, cause and effect (contiguity in time) Implications of definitions (a triangle has 3 sides) Contrary is contradictory and logically impossible ( no triangle has 3 sides" is logically impossible)
