HON 1010C Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Universal Quantification, Existential Quantification, Propositional Calculus
12 Apr 2017
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What is in the mind: feelings, thoughts, feelings. Vague reports of physiological states and events. Associated with behavior: you will behave a certain way depending upon how you feel, thoughts. Are not experiences: feelings are experiences, ex) will this class never end? is a thought but not an experience. You can have thoughts about feelings, but the thoughts themselves are not feelings. You can have thoughts about experiences, but the thoughts themselves are not experiences. Experienced in a language: human uniqueness is found in thought, which is intimately connected to language. Cartesian thoughts = thoughts that are not connected to experiences; type of thought. I am going to go to the park later today is a cartesian thought; i am walking is not a cartesian thought. Logic: thought 1 thought 2 thought 3 conclusion. Human beings are rational animals: our ability to reason sets us apart from other animals, animals cannot reason because they do not have a language.
