PHILOS 2CT3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Selective Perception, Immanuel Kant, A Priori And A Posteriori
4 Mar 2018
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Before getting to the justification part of believe, we must investigate: how we get beliefs in the first place, how we tend to judge their veracity (truth value) While it may be true that believing something to be the case may not provide you with justified true knowledge, we still must belief that p". How do we get beliefs: empiricist say we get this through sense experience. We attend to differences in the sensible manifold, focus on particular signs and adapt to stimuli that last for a long duration. Locke also distinguishes about sensation and reflection (perception: the wy we interpret the raw sense data our brains receive from our sense organs) David hume: gives the interpretive aspect of perception: casts doubt on our ability to come to know anything as it is external to our habits of sensing and reflecting.
