PSYCH 4150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Empiricism, Reductionism, Inductive Reasoning
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I concluded that i was a thing or substance whose whole essence or nature was only to think, and which, to exist, has no need of space or of any material thing or body. On one hand he things of the person as a machine, capable of being studied by the methods of natural science. On the other hand, he thinks that the most valuable and unique human attribute (the mind) is beyond the reach of scientific method and could be understood only by rational reflection. A nativist: he believes we were born with innate ideas. A dualist: can also be in terms of innate and derived ideas. An interactionist: how does the mind and body interact with each other. He shifted the information from the soul to the mind. He showed how important the body was (in terms of the mind) Belief in progress: advances for humankind.
