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Class: PHIL - Western Philosophy - Modern; Subject: Philosophy; University: Bucks County Community College; Term: Forever 1989;
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believed in "i think therefor i exist"only trusted the mind due to dream ideabelieved in god because he knew there wan an idea of a perfection.did not believe in sensory experiencegod was perfect TERM 2
DEFINITION 2 believed in sensory experince and imaginationargued against innate ideaswe only know what we have experiencedethics are based on rather then abstract principlesargument of design TERM 3
DEFINITION 3 humes book the dialgue concerning natural religon;cleanthes to say that nature has a order so there must be creator like as which humans create thingsphilo-evil in the world. if god is seen as kind why is there wickness from man. TERM 4
DEFINITION 4 Descartes. TERM 5
DEFINITION 5 humes
is aphilosophicaldoctrine that holds that the mind is born with ideas/knowledge, and that therefore the mind is not a 'blank slate' at birth, as early empiricists such asJohn Lockeclaimed. It asserts therefore that not all knowledge is obtained from experience and thesenses. TERM 7
DEFINITION 7 for all Descartes knows, he may be under the control of an all-powerful being trying to deceive him. In that case, he does not have a body at all, but a mind fed my images and illusions by the all-powerful being. He doesnt mean this literally. His point is to show that senses can be deceived TERM 8
DEFINITION 8 Descartesi think therefor i existbecause thoughts must have a source there must be an I TERM 9
DEFINITION 9 clear and distinct perceptions TERM 10
DEFINITION 10 when looking at wax you know what it is, when burning it, the smell and shape of it changes also, yet we still know its wax.that is why we can not trust our senses. we can use them to help us understand the true nature of things but the only thing we know for thruth is from our thinking and judgment
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DEFINITION 17 relations of ideas andmatter of facts TERM 18
DEFINITION 18 true by defination TERM 19
DEFINITION 19 type of knowledge that can be characterized as arising out of ones interaction with an experience TERM 20
DEFINITION 20 "all bachelors are single." you dont have to do any scientific research to figure it out
makes reference to experience.the issue concerns how one knows the proposition or claim in questionwhat justifies or grounds one's belief in it.