The British empirists

Question 1

The British empirists

Answer 1

John locke
George berkeley
David Hume

Question 2

Locke

Answer 2

Refutes rationalism with psychological observations.
Innate ideas are unacceptable.

Tabula Rasa was his idea.
Parents ruin it all
All born equal

Question 3

Berkeley

Answer 3

All knowledge enters through senses, we can only be certain of our perceptions. Ideas are passive, we can’t choose our perception so it must be God. Idealism’ esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived. World is not material but real

Question 4

Hume

Answer 4

Problem of induction. The copy principle and correlation. We think in causation, came up with analysis of causality. Induction is faulty because we can’t prove necessity.

Question 5

Analysis of causality Hume

Answer 5

1. Proximity ‘ two things happen close together
2. Consistantcy; cause precedes effect
3. Exclusivity; necessary condition (what we can’t prove)