PHIL 2160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Mind, Fideism, Pyrrhonism
20 Jan 2016
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Taking empiricism to a logical conclusion, does not worry about sceptical implications, will give us a mitigated scepticism (impact diminished), theory of ideas, account of association (causal reasoning) Being a sceptic means you see that there is no way around scepticism. Hume is an atheist he fits into fideism category because he believes religion is just a feeling. The way we form beliefs about the world are like feelings. Hume wants to distinguish two kids of mental contents: ideas from experience (we are born with no mental content, so ideas are memories), and impressions (immediate sensations) You make sense of your immediate impressions based on past experiences; we create expectations based on memory, so immediate moments are put into context. Hume talks very little about this problem; he is not an idealist like berkeley. He believes there"s a world outside the mind, but he leaves the problem of likeness alone and embraces scepticism.
