PSYC 4008 Chapter : Chapter 1 Lecture Notes
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Unlike hobbes, locke presents things to us that suggest u need to be careful about not a sure thing based on experience. George berkeley (1685-1753) distinction between primary and secondary qualities, all are secondary no primary, to be is to be perceived, we have to experience everything) Empiricists explain things in purely physical way, boiled down to experience around to experience it, the earth vanishes. If a tree fell in the forest, it did happen because of the permanent perceiver, god, the guarantee that things continue that reality exists and truth doesn"t dissolve into subjective experience only. Said experience is the basis of knowledge and only experience, if u we form a habit. The cause must have a necessary connection (linkage) to the event based on the . concept of causality: predictable events that occur in the world one thing causes another thing to occur. Into an epistemology that u and i would think.
