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All ideas must be copies of impressions
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It is impossible for us to have an idea of any thing we have not felt, either by external or internal senses
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What are rationalism and empiricism
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Hume is an empiricist, which means that he believes that there is no such thing as innate knowledge, and that instead all knowledge is based off from experiences. Rationalists share the view that there is innate knowledge; they differ in that they choose different objects of innate knowledge.
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Modern world view of nature, freedom and self
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Nature: Nature is abstract due to sense experience
Freedom: Everything is determined Self: Self is nothing but a bundle of interconnected perceptions linked by relations of similarity and causality |
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Explain Hume’s self as a bundle of impressions
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No matter how closely we examine our own experiences, we never observe anything beyond a series of feelings, sensations, and impressions. We cannot observe ourselves, or what we are, in a unified way. There is no impression of the “self” that ties our particular impressions together. In other words, we can never be directly aware of ourselves, only of what we are experiencing at any given moment. Although the relations between our ideas, feelings, and so on, may be traced through time by memory, there is no real evidence of any core that connects them.
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How does Hume limit the claims to knowledge?
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Knowledge is based off impressions and ideas. Hume limits his claims to knowledge by basing it also off from habit, which is subjective. The only foundation of habit that we have is knowledge based off habit.
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What main positive contribution does Hume make?
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Hume held that unjustifiable beliefs could be explained by reference to custom or habit. This is how we learn from experience. People grow accustomed to relating things together. Ex: we see the sun rise everyday, therefore we expect it to come up everyday.
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Explain the relationship of efficient cause and effect: what are the three aspects of the relationship?
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All events seem entirely loose and separate. One event follows another; but we never can observe any tie between them. They are conjoined, but never connected. If A happens then B happens, if A does not then B does not. Three aspects are temporal priority, spatial contiguity and constant conjunction
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Explain the two accounts or explanations that show Hume presupposes the mechanistic view of nature.
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Hume looks at nature as mechanistic. When Hume looks at the world like this, he assumes that personality can be interpreted mathematically, broken down into units, by some kind of scientific formula. Hume believes that people can't have a personal identity. An atomic unit of sense experience for Hume is an impression.
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What is his definition of cause and effect?
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Hume believes that cause and effect are not connections but are conjunctions
Cause=an object, followed by another, and where all the objects similar to the first are followed by objects similar to the second. Or if the first object had not been, then the second never had existed. |
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From the texts indicated in class, give an account of his view of habit.
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