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15 Cards in this Set
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What are the two species of philosophy?
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Reason- difficult and obtruse
Action- easy and obvious |
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what are the two kinds of perceptions?
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Impressions- actually experience of red
Ideas- just remembering a past experience of red |
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What is meant by: "causes and effects are discoverable, not by reason, but by experience."
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Can't discover by reson how one ball might react with another ball just by lookng at it, you must experience it.
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what are the three principles of connection among ideas?
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cause and effect- when you think of the injury, you will think of the accident
Contiguity- think of your dorm, think of other dorms Resemblance- see tree think of different trees that look similar |
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How is belief to be understood?
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in belief there is sentiment which relates to cause and previous experiences.
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what is common to both cause/effect and motivation/action. what is the place of liberty in all of this?
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they both are a result of the other. liberty usually relates to motivation, what makes you want to do a particular thing
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What is the difference between relation of ideas and matters of fact?
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roi has no possibility of contradiction, mof has that possibity. an example of roi is "no married bacholors." an example of mof is what happens when one ball hits another (cause/effects things).
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what does a posterier mean?
what does a priori mean? |
after experience
before experience |
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what are the 5 parts of belief? i got two
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Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object
Belief is something felt by the mind, whih distinguishes the ideas of the judgment from the fictions of the imagination |
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five cause and effect relations?
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Discoverable from experience, not reason
Every effect is distinct from its cause If the first object had never been, the 2nd would never occur No object followed by another where all ojects similar to the first are joined by objects simlar to the 2nd Object followed by another appearance of the first gives rise to thought of 2nd |
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hardings argument?
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humanitarian aid perpetuats over opulation, we shouldn't give humanitarian aid
should teach, alternate fuels, production rate reduction |
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singers argument?
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should give 30 g's out of 50 g's.
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hume is a skeptic? why?
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thinks that reasoning can go astray, no absolute judgements, only judgement w/warrent are those based on experience.
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difference between animals/humans?
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matter of degree.
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what is a miracle?
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violation of the laws of nature
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