Hume, Dialogues Flashcards
What is a priori knowledge?
Concepts that are impossible to be otherwise, like mathematical concepts. You know how they are WITHOUT HAVING TO CHECK.
Which of the 3 dialogues most accurately fits Hume’s viewpoint?
The voice of Philo
What is Cleanthes’s viewpoint?
That the creation of earth is similar in the way in which we know a house has a builder and it was constructed by a designer.
Why does Philo reject the viewpoint of Cleanthes?
He says that we cannot relate the way in which God made the earth to the way in which humans make buildings cause we are relating this to our experience, which is wrong since we have not directly experienced God.
On what point do Philo and Cleanthes agree?
That we make assumptions about how things happen based on what we experience.
Who believes that the creation of the Earth resembles the way in which a plant came to be?
Philo
True or false: Philo says that there are parts of the world that are characterized by disorder.
True
True or false: the Hume dialogues have a focus on the order of materialistic things.
True
What is the standpoint of Demea?
She says that Cleanthes gives good fodder for the atheists. Her and Philo bash Cleanthes.
What is meant by empirical knowledge?
A posteriori knowledge. They are, for example, like the things scientists know about what they study. You know that these things are the way they are, but you HAVE TO CHECK.
