POG 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lucretius, Tabula Rasa, Epicurus

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 100
• Professor: Patrice Dutil

Document Summary

This view requires that we view identity as contingent not necessary. If a = b is contingent, that means it"s not necessary in every possible world. Elvis costello = declan macmanus , same person in actual world. This goes against a widely held view in logic/the philosophy of language to the effect that names are rigid designators- they pick out the same individuals in every possible world. Hard to imagine a concrete being connected to this abstract realm of the forms. Materialistic metaphysics mind = material interaction. Empiricist epistemology = evidence comes from sense-experience. Epicurean physics world is formed by a concourse of atoms. If soul exists, it is a material soul substance of mind cannot come to birth alone without the body / exist separated from sinews and blood . No innateness we are born as a blank slate and sensory experience gives us our knowledge, we are not born w/ it.