Empiricism

Introduction An experiment was generated in the lab to enhance the understanding on taking the percent composition and formulating the empirical formula of a hydrate. In chemistry, hydrates are compounds which absorb water molecules and incorporate them as part of a structure. The hydrate in this experiment was an inorganic hydrate, meaning the bonds between water molecules were inadequate (What is a hydrate? (n.d.)). This made it effortless for H2O to detach from the substance when coming in…

The personal identity is a symbol of a person’s existence. It extends beyond the purpose of a name, serving as proof for the existence of the self in time. However, the physical appearance is not what the personal identity is derived from. In Locke’s Personal Identity, the personal identity stems from the consciousness itself instead of the physical body. The identity is significant to the individual, as it allows the individual to distinguish between the experiences from their mind and what…

John Locke states that we can acquire knowledge via sense perceptions even though this kind of knowledge is not like that of demonstration. He argues this through the use of his readings and his quotations. They accurately represent what he thinks and how he goes about experimenting this idea. John Locke explains his ideas into three different subheadings that come together to prove his point. His first point is that when we are born, we are born with a blank slate of mind. His second point is…

Basing his philosophy on the reliability of the senses to perceive the external world, John Locke disapproves of the notion that our understanding of reality could be confined simply within some simulation, namely a dream. His retort to dream skepticism involves an imaginary scenario in which a dream skeptic is asked to place his hand into a furnace. Pain, to Locke, does not exist in a universal form, but rather is experienced in varied manners in differing states of consciousness, with…

David Hume was Born April 26, 1711, and died August 25, 1776; he was a great Scottish philosopher during the age of enlightenment, or also known as the age of reason. When David was at the age of two his father, Joseph Hume, who was a promoter for Chirnside, passed. This left the custody of David, his older brother, and older sister to his mother, Katherine Lady Falconer. Being a Mother of three children, as well as a widow is indeed backbreaking, but this made Falconer yearn for a bigger…

John Locke 1632-1704 AD. Locke was born August 29th 1632 in Wrington, Somerset, England. “He became a highly influential philosopher, writing about such topics as political philosophy, epistemology, and education” (Biography, 2016).He attended West Minister School and Christ Church, University of Oxford. While John Locke attended Oxford he studied medicine. He later became a physician. John Locke was an English philosopher. He was a very intellectual man, he studied metaphysics, classical…

In 1600s England John Locke was an Enlightenment Philosopher who believed in natural law. Locke had many achievements during his time that people could think of as good or bad. I think that Locke´s accomplishments that he made during his time should be thought of more as good rather than bad. During his early life John Locke was born in Wrington, England in 1646. He was sent to Westminster School for six years. Then he went to Oxford for 4 years and got his master´s degree in 1658. Locke…

The Scottish philosopher David Hume produced a description and analysis of the relation of cause and effect and our use of it in reasoning about matters of fact. Hume’s analysis was able to wake the Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) from his so called dogmatic slumber. From the awakening of Kant comes the questions Why did Hume’s arguments wake Kant from his dogmatic slumber? And what is Kant’s response to Hume’s analysis and how successful is Kant in his response to Hume? In…

Rationalism and Empiricism ; focussing on Rationalism When we do somethings whose results are known to us, like throwing an object in the air, so we know that it will fall back on the ground, How can we say this? Is it because we’ve seen things fall if we toss them up in the air or is it because of us learning some laws of physics ( the gravitation law ) The above example shows Empirisicm and Rationalism in the respective cases. This has been a famous argument in philosophy for a long time.…

Kant attributes Hume as his inspiration to the critique of pure reason as Hume’s work motivated him to prove Hume wrong. Specifically, Kant worked against Hume’s concept of causation. Where Hume found no necessity in causation nor of causation, Kant found causation necessary in both senses- otherwise no one would be able to navigate the world. However, Kant’s critique of Hume is much more general than causation, Kant through causation is asserting the existence of synthetic a priori judgements.…