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Define rationalism and empiricism |
Knowledge through reason, vs knowledge through experience |
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Plato |
Year: 520 Allegory of the Cave |
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Berkeley |
Year: 1686 What do you experience when you experience? You experience the idea of a thing - therefore no material objects |
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Descartes Quotes |
"I think therefore I am" 1637 "...this proposition, I am, I exist, is neccessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind" 1641 |
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RES COGITANS |
a thinking thing |
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RES EXTENSA |
an extended thing |
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Example of Res Extensa |
Wax - its properties can all change and yet I still know that it is wax! Therefore must have an essence that pass through various modes whilst still remaining wax. We can perceive this essence through understanding rather than the senses |
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World is made of three types of thing |
thinking things extended things god |
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But god is a metaphysical special case so there world is made up of two things |
mental substance and physical substance |
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Descartes quote 3 |
"I now seem to be able to lay it down as a general rule that whatever I perceive VERY CLEARLY AND DISTINCTLY IS TRUE" |
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Malebranche |
1680 word = logos = reason - trinitarian - humans are created in some way after god so there is a sense of analogy between human minds and the trinity |
