PHI 3108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Venn Diagram, Direct And Indirect Realism, Finitism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 3108
• Professor: Graeme Hunter

Document Summary

Direct realism: indirect realism (berkeley"s locke, malebranche) A body is being perceived indirectly via an idea. They believe that only the idea is perceived directly: direct realism berkley. Time = successions of ideas: our minds are continuous, when we die, like in a video game we are simply afk and in the afterlife we return. Principles of human knowledge (page 89: things can divide into two things: How do we know about minds: metaphysics. Can the mind act only on its ideas: yes and no, berkeley"s view. You have a cup that is made up of many idea atoms. When we perceive it, there is an overlap between the ideas of our mind and the ideas of god"s mind (think of a venn. Part of the ideas stem from imagination & memory (outside the overlap) and sensation (inside the overlap: embodied mind.