PHL 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Baruch Spinoza, Empirical Evidence, Personal Identity
15 Apr 2017
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He is skeptical of causality we can never be sure that the first one is a reasoning as to why the second one happened. He is an empiricist empiricists say everything they know is based off of facts. Causality goes back to a regular association of ideas. Ideas are less vivid, but can be confirmed causal relation. Two ideas are associated with each other causation. No perfect identity: two arguments and conclusion (first few pages) Hume says why there is no persistent self. No self because there is no impression (empirical data) Instead of there being this (pg252), there are bundle of perceptions: why we assume there is a self, and the explanation of our idea of what the self is (page. It might be perfectly simple (simply, perfect) to understand, it is not complex. Geometrical points are an example of something that is perfectly simple.
