HUMA 1160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Metaphysics
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Books to refer to- tweyman descarte & hums selected topics. The concern with descartes are with the kind of statement people make. What descartes favours is 1+2 kind of statement. Verifications trying to prove, true or false. How do you prove prof shirt is white ? someone has to look at it. ( the colour can be changed) this verification is empirical ( see touch taste smell in order to prove true or false. How you learn it is emprircal, you see 1 and 1 which equals two. Difference between the shirt and 1+1 is that no one can change the 1+1 statement which equals 2. Modality- the confidence of the speaker in the type of connection the sentence posses. Shirt = the subject of the sentence prediquet = the colour of the shirt ( result) 4 types of modality- 1st modality of possibility ( possibly he is wearing a white shirt)
