PHILOS 2XX3 Lecture Notes - Mind
11 Apr 2014
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Jan 8: epistle-purpose and method of essay. Ideas, nature of: no innate ideas, arguments, objection and replies. I. i. 3: inquire into the original [origin] of human knowledge: determine how it is build up from this origin, thereby, determine the limits of knowledge, faith and opinion, distinguish between ideas proper and unintelligible nonsense. Ideas : central view here is that knowledge originates with ideas , undertake survey of what sorts of ideas we have, and of what allows us to perceive relations between ideas, but what are ideas? . Perhaps he merely referred to mental content: whatever he meant specifically, the initial question is about the origin of the ideas we no doubt have. Instead all ideas arises through experience (and we will have to see just how this happens) and knowledge arises as a result off cognitive operations performed upon these ideas (and we will have to see just how this happens)
