PHIL 008 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Physicalism, Epiphenomenalism, Property Dualism
29 Oct 2020
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I believe my friend is in germany because i believe i received a letter from her and i take to be an effect of her sending it. They are either a priori conclusions or conclusions from experience. (27-32: they are not a priori conclusions, 1. If an object were presented to me unlike any object i had seen before, i would be unable to deduce from its qualities any of its causes or effects (see 27: 2. Claims about cause and effect are not such that their denial leads to a contradiction (see 29: 3. To find causal relations between facts or events, we need observation and experiment (see 30) The basis of beliefs about cause and effect: so, beliefs about what causes what are conclusions from experience. It can"t be that the assumption that the future will be like the past is supported by a priori reasoning.
