Classical and modern empiricism

Question 0

Induction

Answer 0

Forming wider and wider generalizations from repeated experiences
Particular things-> general or universal concept is established
Collect and generalize

Question 1

Aristotles induction

Answer 1

Immanent vs transcendent forms
All knowledge comes from the sense experience.
Knowledge involved general or universal ideas that come from particular things (induction)

Question 2

St Thomas’s abstraction

Answer 2

Nothing is in the intellect which was not first in the sense
Intellect liberates the essence of a particular things( experience through the senses) and understand the universal idea and its nature

Question 3

Do Aristotle and aquinas deny innate ideas

Answer 3

Yes but they allow mental operations which they admit are required for knowledge
Otherwise we’d only have the appearance of things

Question 4

The mind naturally ____ for us

Answer 4

Abstracts for us.

Thus we get universal knowledge