PHL 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Everytime
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09/10/15 philosophers start with an inquiry from the mind . Empirical data- information that i receive through my senses (sound, sight, touch, etc. ) The initial thought is orange marks , yet it is discarded. Square is a concept a mathematical order, there is no square in empirical world) Frame of reference- a conceptual order in your head through which you make data to make decisions, but you should come at this problem in a different way. We have the same data, looking at the same image, but we are not seeing the same thing. The orientation of my mind you pick you what you see, but language makes you look again. Philosophy: looking again, another way of organizing your world. Ambiguity of having two images in one (no fixed meaning) There may not be universally accepted, right answers, about the way the world is.