PHIL 2025 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Intuit, Cosmological Argument
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In the first 3 chapters of essay iv, locke claims that there are objects outside of us but that our knowledge of these objects is limited. It extends only as far as our ideas and maybe not even that far. In today"s reading he further investigates the scope and limit of our knowledge. Although we may know scientific laws and principles it is not yet clear whether anything corresponds to these always. Although we can know that things exist corresponding to our ideas . We don"t know how close the resemblance is between things and ideas. Or that these things exist independently of being perceived. General rules, whether scientific or moral, are based on the examination of complex modes. If there are substances corresponding to our complex ideas then those substances will have to exhibit the same relation. Whether or not there are such substances will have to be decided by sensation (not by intuition or demonstration)
