PHIL 2010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Reductionism, Qualia, Philosophical Zombie
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Knowledge: descartes" method and standard of doubt. Therefore (3) i can"t know if my experiences are real: not a literally argument, but a plausible idea, big question: what do i know, skepticism: Turns into what can we know: that i exist; the person doing the thinking. The dream argument does not stand up because there are other people interacting with you. You can sense different things using sensory input to observe the world: sense-data: Data collected from the external world using senses of the body: taste, touch, sight, smell, etc, evidence collected from objects of the external world. Mental qualities: only exist in the mind when sensing. Exist only while perceived in front of the observer: appearance vs. A: objects can have multiple different views depending on where the observer is looking at it: it seems like the object has multiple different forms.
