Philosophy 1020 Lecture 6: Russell’s Reply – Universals
16 May 2016
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We navigate our way through the world through means of general categories. We have the concept of blue and the concept of water and thus we put them together and determine what we see. Our senses can not be the source of our knowledge or ability. For plato, he has a skeptical attitude towards the senses. The senses deceive us; they are so unreliable and so we know we cannot always trust that they are telling us the truth. Plato"s answer: though the senses deceive us, they awaken us of the prior knowledge we have of what he calls forms . Theory of recollection; our souls are immortal and there is a reality beyond us, which we are aware of because our souls acquired it. For hume, he says experience has its limits because our senses provide for us only particular kinds of information.
