Philosophy 1130F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Tabula Rasa
4 Apr 2016
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Ideas having certain properties: primary qualities // secondary qualities. Arguments over what colour something is, whether the room is hot or cold. The mind must be furnished somehow: we discover new things, acquiring knowledge and ideas: when we are born, the mind is like a blank slate, there is nothing on it: no knowledge. As we begin having experiences, the mind becomes more and more furnished. We must be born with some sort of understanding // instincts: crying when you"re upset, laughing when you find something funny, etc. Ideas: these are things that we entertain in our mind. The only thing that truly exists in the mind: there is nothing that we truly perceive: we perceive things as if there is something there, but in reality there is nothing there. To exist is to be perceived // if something is not perceived, it does not exist at all.
