ACS 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cartesian Coordinate System, Scholasticism, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
17 Apr 2017
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Rationalism and empiricism in early modern philosophy and physics. Francis bacon (1561-1626) - founder rene descartes (1596-1650)- founder. Reason can analyze concepts and discover reason can intuit some general their logical relations, but reason alone truths about the world and can cannot yield knowledge about the world deduce others from them, e. g. , or what exists. Knowledge about the world for descartes, one can intuit and existents is based on sensory that every event has a cause, and observations and inductive inferences one can prove god exists and from them. that minds are immortal. Bacon"s empiricist method of science: from observations of particular things and events, one moves to ever more general claims by enumerative and eliminative induction. This is a bottom-up approach from a basis of particular claims based on observations* to ever more general, abstract ones. Most general principles: e. g. , principle of inertia, law of universal gravitation.
