PHIL 375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Empiricism, Inductive Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning
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Behind his writing is the dispute: rationalism (eg. descartes) vs. empiricism (locke)". Empiricism: quantifiable, experience>thought, perception is foundation, need to make an observation, Patch" together knowledge, bottom to top", inductive reasoning, observation->theory->other observations for confirmation vs. Rationalism: cognition is foundation of what we know, acess to self is transparent, interior experience within the self, quality, deductive reasoning, logical conclusion. Hume: criticizes locke-> memory is key to identifying the self. Share" same meory with 10 years younger self and current self. Memory is critical to identity, but not sufficient. Memory=does not so much produce but helps in the discovery of self. *idea is based on impression-> can relate to each other, can compare. View of self is fragmentated, pile of things that happen to be at the same place at the same time. > subject to constant change, though related to each other. > over time it changes, but because of continuity it is held as the one massive thing.
