SOC SCI H1G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Steven Pinker, False Premise

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOC SCI H1G
• Professor: Jeff Barrettand Kyle Stanford

Document Summary

Matters of fact and relations of ideas (hume"s fork) Directly come to us --- there immediately. Ex. the coffee cup; he can feel the cup, see the cup, and feel the warmth. Are copies of impressions, or mixtures of other ideas that can be traced back to impressions **** Ex. if he puts the coffee cup down, he can remember the weight of it in his hand, the warmth, the smell, but this is just a faint memory he has to think about. He can create a picture of it in his head when he closes his eyes. Combine the idea of a coffee cup with the idea of purple to mix the two -- and there were impressions that lead to this idea. Relations of ideas (knowledge before experience) judgements matters of fact (grounded in experience) Matters of fact are grounded on constant conjunction. Ex. fire is hot, something you know about the world, something you have to experience.