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Rationalist believe in Apriori. Apriori comes before sense experience.
EMPIRICISM – Senses (Page 191)
1. JOHN LOCKE – TABULA RASA = BLANK STATE
Notebook
Mind begins with clear state
We use our senses to find out about the world
Sense data or qualities
World existing outside of us
Primary qualities: Scientific characteristics of an object
Substrata – what truly exists / reality
a. HINDU MYSTIC – praying and sitting on a bed of nails
What supports the Earth? A white elephant
What supports the white elephant? A giant tortoise
What supports the giant tortoise? “I KNOW NOT WHAT”
Empiricists admit limitation of knowledge LOCKE – Our knowledge is only as far as our senses can take us Does not know what quality proves substratum FOR EMPIRICISTS HUMAN KNOWLEDGE IS “LIMITED”
Book
a. SUBSTRATUM
– metaphysical idea
Where primary and secondary qualities adhere
Exists in all things
Secondary qualities: Do not make object what it is, attach themselves to object. Qualities are merely accidental to the object.
(Color of marker: A blue marker if changed to color red is still a marker)
Primary Qualities: Makes object what it is. If quality is missing, the object will not be what it is. 2. GEORGE BERKELEY – ESSE EST PERCIPI = TO BE IS TO BE PERCEIVED
Notebook
Perception – Senses – Mind
Proof: Flame Experiment
Put hand near flame = Warm
Put hand in flame = Pain
Its got to be in the mind
Bucket of Water
Sensations you feel does not originate from objects but from the mind
Perceiving Mind
a. HYMOLORPHIC DOCTRINE – Dialogue
PHILOMUS (BERKELEY) and HYLAS (LOCKE)
All things perceived by the mind are IMMATERIAL
DOCTRINE OF IMMATERIALISM
Book
No sense of talking about real objects independent of the perceiving mind
God is the guarantor of all things that are not perceived to exist
3. DAVID HUME – WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT, WE CANNOT KNOW
Book
The most consistent empiricist
Bertrand Russell – “no one could accept and no one could refute”
Hume
Rationalist believe in Apriori. Apriori comes before sense experience.
EMPIRICISM – Senses (Page 191)
1. JOHN LOCKE – TABULA RASA = BLANK STATE
Notebook
Mind begins with clear state
We use our senses to find out about the world
Sense data or qualities
World existing outside of us
Primary qualities: Scientific characteristics of an object
Substrata – what truly exists / reality
a. HINDU MYSTIC – praying and sitting on a bed of nails
What supports the Earth? A white elephant
What supports the white elephant? A giant tortoise
What supports the giant tortoise? “I KNOW NOT WHAT”
Empiricists admit limitation of knowledge LOCKE – Our knowledge is only as far as our senses can take us Does not know what quality proves substratum FOR EMPIRICISTS HUMAN KNOWLEDGE IS “LIMITED”
Book
a. SUBSTRATUM
– metaphysical idea
Where primary and secondary qualities adhere
Exists in all things
Secondary qualities: Do not make object what it is, attach themselves to object. Qualities are merely accidental to the object.
(Color of marker: A blue marker if changed to color red is still a marker)
Primary Qualities: Makes object what it is. If quality is missing, the object will not be what it is. 2. GEORGE BERKELEY – ESSE EST PERCIPI = TO BE IS TO BE PERCEIVED
Notebook
Perception – Senses – Mind
Proof: Flame Experiment
Put hand near flame = Warm
Put hand in flame = Pain
Its got to be in the mind
Bucket of Water
Sensations you feel does not originate from objects but from the mind
Perceiving Mind
a. HYMOLORPHIC DOCTRINE – Dialogue
PHILOMUS (BERKELEY) and HYLAS (LOCKE)
All things perceived by the mind are IMMATERIAL
DOCTRINE OF IMMATERIALISM
Book
No sense of talking about real objects independent of the perceiving mind
God is the guarantor of all things that are not perceived to exist
3. DAVID HUME – WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT, WE CANNOT KNOW
Book
The most consistent empiricist
Bertrand Russell – “no one could accept and no one could refute”
Hume