PHIL 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Empiricism
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Bit if we want to get to nature of thing, the way they really are, we have to go beyond our ever-changing sensory perceptions of them. There is a distinction between how things look and how things really are. Primary and secondary qualities (e. g. wax candle before and after being lit) Whatever the wax might have been, perceived by my senses, is now something else. The wax is nothing but something that is extended, flexible and changeable. Size, weight, extension, 3 dimensionality, duration (primary qualities) What the mind understand, is something i can be confident about. The mind does not betray the way the sense do. Mind and its thoughts are within my own control, and dependent on nothing other than my existence which is certain. I am a thinking thing they are under my control. Only freedom we have = freedom of our mind thought rationalism. In regards to where our knowledge comes from.