PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Alternative Facts
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Says: your consciousness is made up of he ideas that are made of the impressions gotten from senses. Whats the different between attributing to a certain idea the truth from the out side world and mere scenario or situation. Difference between fiction and belief lies in feeling which depends not on will. Belief is a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object". Because you are capable of making counter examples. Vividness is neither necessary nor sufficient for belief. Not necessary: if you say a is necessary for b, b could not happen without a. Section 7: necessary connection everything we know comes from trusting cause & effect relationship that links things in the world. We appear to believe that between different events there is a necessary connection. Hume: we have no basis for this. We only get ideas in one way, from copying impressions and must shows which impression(s) impose it.
