PHIL 1050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Direct And Indirect Realism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1050
• Professor: Patricia Sheridan

Document Summary

Lecture 7- john locke"s empiricism: theories of perception, descartes vs. locke. The ideas of substances and substance in general. I get direct access to the independently existing world with my senses, just as it exists outside of my mind: problems: senses are deceptive; senses are relative; senses are limited. There is a world outside the mind, i just can"t get direct perceptual access to it. ); if we cannot see the world, as it really is, how can we ever determine if it is like the ideas or not; veil of perception problem; no privileged point of view on real " world. Descartes"s answer: we have abstract ideas of thought and extension, extension exists outside the mind (god would not deceive us, our ideas of extension do resemble reality. They are not a source of knowledge about true and essential nature of things.