PHILOS 1E03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
17 Jan 2020
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The only way to know if something exists is through its actually operating on you, forcing itself on you and making you perceive it. Remember simply having the idea of something does not make it exist. Locke likens it to having a picture of a man. This picture is no proof that the man exists. Locke thinks its clear that we get ideas from outside of us and those ideas inform us of the existence of other things. Clearly, the organs themselves do not produce such ideas, for if they did then the eyes of a man in the dark would produce colors and his nose would smell roses in the winter. We can not avoid having these ideas produced in our minds. The difference between remembering ideas of pain, hunger, thirst, etc and actually experiencing them in the moment. Senses often work in tandem and confirm what the other sense is perceiving.
