Chapter 10

Question 1

Impericism

Answer 1

Knowledge +from senses and all ideas can be traces to sense data

Question 2

a posteriori mean and examples

Answer 2

ideas with observations and expiriements to back them up. Deductive, universally true
ie. my shirt is blue

Question 3

skeptic and name the three British Empiricists considered to be skeptics?

Answer 3

Skeptic: demands evidence(solid) before accepting anything as knowledge
John Locke, Berkley,and humme

Question 4

Define tabula rasa? What does it have to do with the correspondence theory of truth?

Answer 4

“blank slate” all people are born with a blank slate. We gain / fill the slate through expiriences.
The idea is true if you correspond the concept with physical world ( if it actually exists)

Question 5

According to Locke, what are primary and secondary qualities and how do they help reinforce his belief in dualism?

Answer 5

Primary: objective qualities that exist independantly: aka shape, size, motion, location( exist in object)
Secondary: qualities depend on perciever : aka taste, sound, texture.(exist in us)
The dualism is that we have the known and the knower

Question 6

the egocentric predicament presented by epistemological dualism

Answer 6

If all knowledge comes from a form of my ideas then how can I verify the existence of anything external to them?
Everything we experience becomes ideas. you cannot get outside your mind and so you cannot prove things.

Question 7

idealism (berekley)

Answer 7

only ideas exist. material world is fiction

Question 8

Esse est percipi and what does it have to do with empiricism (berkeley)

Answer 8

“to be is to be percieved” nothing can exist without something percieving it
god is the ultimate perciever. which provides us with everything and even our existance

Question 9

According to Hume, what is the difference between ideas and impressions and what do they have to do with the empirical criterion of meaning?

Answer 9

ideas: thoughts
Impressions: senses and desires
Criterion of meaning: Meaningful ideas can be traced back to impressions.

Question 10

inductive reasoning

Answer 10

pattern that proceeds from the particular to the general and this establishes generalized rules

Question 11

the bundle theory of self?

Answer 11

not just one self, but a bundle of perceptions… we just use self to discus perceptions

Question 12

Humes Thoughts on God

Answer 12

God is not able to be taken back to perceptions.

Question 13

Hume said, “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.” According to
Hume, what does this statement imply about our common notions of morality?

Answer 13

make what r called moral decisions

Question 14

used the example of alien

Answer 14

our imaginations or ideas are concepts- pull together things that we have expirienced