PHLA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Color Blindness, Subjective Idealism
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Locke and berkeley: an essay concerning human understanding and principles of human. Tabula rasa: our minds when we are born, we have a blank space. We are empty vessels waiting for knowledge/thoughts etc. We get the our information from sensory experience. However it is just not raw observation that gives us information and ideas, but also you imagining something which is called reflection. Things that exist: ideas, minds, physical objects: while we know something is there, we do not know if it corresponds with reality. If we experience the physical object only through our mind the challenge is knowing how other species perceive things. How do we know that the way we has humans perceive things is the right way. You look at a green apple, but someone who has colour blindness might see another colour. Locke calls this the veil of ideas, meaning what i have in my mind perfectly corresponds to the world.
