Foundational Debates In Epistemology

Question 1

Hume on the imagination

Answer 1

The imagination “is really confined within very narrow limits”

Question 2

Hume on ideas

Answer 2

All ideas, especially abstract ones, are naturally faint and obscure […] they are apt to be confounded with other resembling ideas

Question 3

Locke on sensation and reflection

Answer 3

[A person]has not any idea in his mind, but what one of these two [sensation or reflection] has imprinted

Question 4

Hume on thoughts v sensations

Answer 4

The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation

Question 5

Descartes on perceiving and thinking

Answer 5

What in me is called perceiving […] is nothing other than thinking

Question 6

Descartes on thé wax experiment

Answer 6

I could not even conceive by way of imagination what this wax is, and that it is my understanding alone that perceives

Question 7

Kant’s ideas on rationalism and empiricism

Answer 7

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

Question 8

Descartes on the falsity of senses

Answer 8

It is prudent never to trust completely those [senses] who have deceived us even once