PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Contiguity
Document Summary
Epistemology is founded on psychology what we can know is dependent on our cognitive. Closer look at the possibility of knowing stuff about the world. Asserting the inherent truth of the claim: an effect is something that has a cause. You can"t be a sibling unless you have one. Claim 2: all events have causes: difficulty in identifying the cause" to an event. But that won"t tell you anything you have to convince your best friend to try it. Friend agrees for the greater good for both of us (1) eat & be fine your friend died after two hours (2) eat and die. How could you identify the cause of your friend"s death being the fruit you have to appeal to experience. You can"t tell whether something is helpful or harmful unless somebody tries it. Tf, you only find causal connections via experience. Ball a hits ball b > ball b moves (just a repeated occurrence)