PY 370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: John Stuart Mill, Tabula Rasa
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All knowledge and intellectual processes depend on sensory experience. Mind + body = dualism (cid:862)ta(cid:271)ula rasa(cid:863) blank slate. There are no innate ideas- only innate operations. Universal ideas are just due to common experience. Ideas present before language still come from experience (ex; babies) Stimuli mind sensation reflection simple ideas complex ideas. Combinations of pleasure and pain (simple or complex) Goes to complex ideas and emotions (and morality) Experiences in cold, war, hot water- different perspectives based on different. Ideas are associated when they are experienced together. You kno(cid:449) (cid:449)hat a s(cid:395)ua(cid:396)e is (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause you"(cid:448)e seen a lot of s(cid:395)ua(cid:396)e shaped things. Most of what we call knowledge is just probability. Almost all science is probabilistic (except for math) Probability allows us to deal with the world (heuristics) Continuity of memory and reflection upon previous conscious experiences. Gene(cid:396)al meaning wo(cid:396)ds (cid:894)(cid:862)s(cid:395)ua(cid:396)e(cid:863)(cid:895) a(cid:396)e (cid:271)ased on a(cid:271)st(cid:396)a(cid:272)tion what is a real square in.
