PHIL 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Empiricism

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 110
• Professor: Colanter

Document Summary

The view that we can have no knowledge. Universal skepticism holds that we cannot know anything at all, whereas local, or particular, skepticism holds that there are important realms in which we are ignorant. A sentence or statement that must either be true or false. States how the world is, is a proposition. A proposition is contingent if its denial is logically possible. A being is contingent if it is not logically necessary. A proposition that cannot be false, such as analytic propositions. When one statement denies another, both of which cannot be true; for example, All the objects of human reason or enquiry may naturally be divided into two kinds, to wit, relations of ideas and matters of fact. Of the first kind are the sciences of geometry, algebra, and arithmetic; and in short, every affirmation which is either intuitively or demonstratively certain .