PHIL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Main Point, Preposition And Postposition, Coherentism
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The apparent persistence and movement of things is best explained by there being a mind independent physical world. The apparent motion and behavior of cats is best explained by there being a mind independent entity which moves around, gets hungry, etc. The same can be said about humans but also the sequences of sounds are best explained by there being used to express thoughts just as i would use them. Note: this is often referred to russell"s analogy. Do not postulate entities beyond what is necessary (to explain a given phenomenon) The bottom line: occam"s razor is not defined well enough to be especially useful in controversial cases. Russell on knowledge see second half of 72/r67. 2. there is a hand (and here is another) therefore there are external objects. He rejects skepticism criteria of rigorous proofs. To give a general statement about how any preposition of that sort could be proved.
