PHILOS 14 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: East Los Angeles College, Law Of Excluded Middle, Innatism
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Classifications of all perceptions of the mind. Ideas- faint and obscure copies of impressions. Truths of logic/ propositions of logic (principle of excluded middle) can be. Matters of fact require the original set of impressions to know if it"s true or false. A claim of a matter of fact can only be corroborated with comparison to the original set known a priori of impressions. Cause and effect to hume is very important. The immediate data of simple sensation is relatively sparse. The idea of cause and effect/concept of causation- most of our knowledge of reality and the world is based on this relation. All ideas must be copies of the original set of impressions that they derive. An account of human understanding from the radically empiricist point of departure, how do we get to cause and effect relations. Takes place not through a priori reasoning, Page 23- argument about experience- from causes, which appear similar, we expect similar effects.
