PHI 3108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tabula Rasa, Direct And Indirect Realism, Baruch Spinoza
7 Sep 2016
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Once you"ve answered all the questions, you"ve written an essay. Ontology (study of what exists: there will be perceivers, there will be objects of perception (bodies) He isn"t as articulate in explaining his views. Ontology: there will be perceives, there will be direct objects (ideas, there will be indirect objects of perception (bodies etc. ) You have an idea in your head: indirect object of perception. We can divide our ideas in two main ideas. Primary qualities: motion, extension, shape form, solidity (resistance of being crushed, these resemble their causes. Secondary qualities: color, taste, smell, boundaries are are simply. Your idea of number is just built of items. The same of, over and over and over thing. Simple mode same thing multiple times. Some relations between are more complex and multi layered than others: substances. Spinoza the only substance is god. Descartes a substances are bearer of properties. Leibnitz simple, meaning they have no parts.
