Philosophy 1230A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: John Locke, Mount Everest, Brooklyn Bridge
26 Feb 2016
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Personal experience (a conjunction of many sensory experiences) ex. Mount everest is harder to climb than another mountain, i have climbed both. fallible. We can be effected by biases, and our experiences are not accurate. Background information: someone selling the brooklyn bridge to you for 100$, we can know that this is impossible. We acquire info about the world through perceptions, we retain it with memory, we extend it with reason and we transmit it with testimony. Almost all of our abiding information about the world is- and for beings like us must be- mediated through other people"s testimony. Herricks answer: testimony is information we receive from other people. Better answer: item of information that is presented as true and is intended to serve an instructive function. Condition 1: rules out many jokes, questions, commands etc that do not seem to qualify as items of testimony, without ruling out posthumous publications.
