Kant and Du Chatelet
These are objectively valid; observer invariant. Require pure concepts of the understanding, as set out in the table of judgments.
What are Kantian judgments of experience?
Saying this is the same as saying that a person is pleased with what they are pleased with
What is the claim that liberty is a property of the will?
Simplest in hypothesis and maximally rich in its effects.
What is the principle of perfection?
Everything, including mind and mind-parts is material
What is materialism?
Fundamentally there are two substances out of which all things are made.
What is dualism?
1740
When was the IP published?
Raw and uncompounded.
What are simple ideas?
The principle by which all monads unravel their complete concepts in accordance with all other monads.
What is Leibniz's PEH?
There is fundamentally only one substance out of which everything else is constituted.
What is monism?
The level of doubt in which we can doubt that squares have four sides.
What is Descartes' evil-demon argument/hyperbolic level of doubt?
When things simply touch.
What is EDC's definition of continguity
Children, idiots, and savages would not assent to propositions like "whatever is, is."
What is Locke's attack of innate ideas?
That which has no parts; has only appetite and perception
What is a monad?
What is plenism?
The reality of cause must be as real as the effects.
What is the causal principle?
These are objectively valid; observer invariant. Require pure concepts of the understanding, as set out in the table of judgments.
What is a judgment of experience?
Studied and received a PhD (1734) in philosophy at the University in Wittenberg.
Who is Anton Wilhem Amo?
All substances contain their concepts.
What is Leibniz's CIC theory?
"we have neither an image of God. And thus we are forbidden to worship God under the form of an image...it seems therefore there is no idea in us of God"
What is Thomas Hobbes' objection of Descartes' third argument for God.
This camp of skeptics believe that philosophical truth is not possible, but wisdom is still possible and some claims are more probable than others.
What is academic skepticism?
Space is nothing over and above the relations between objects, but there still is a privileged sense of motion.
What is Du Chateletean relationism and true motion?
What is the apathy of mind for Amo?
For every event there must be a reason or cause.
What is the principle of sufficient reason?
This is the thesis that matter contains some rational/thinking elements.
Whatever I clearly and distinctly perceive is true.
The truth principle for Descartes