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EMPIRICISM
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HUME 1
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Empiricists were philosophers that believed that there was absolutely nothing in the mind that has not already been experienced through these.
What are "senses" or "our senses?"
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Locke lived from 1632 to 1704, and was an important figure for the evolution of empiricism. His first name was this.
What is John?
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The most important of the empiricists, Hume lived from 1711 to 1776. His first name was this.
What is David?
100
The type of qualities--extension, weight, motion, number, etc.--Locke believed could be reproduced objectively. This is also a form of election in which party members or voters select candidates for a subsequent election.
What is primary?
100
Hume believed that it is these, and not reasoning that determines what we say or do.
What are emotions or sentiments?
200
The most important empiricists were Locke, Berkeley, and Hume; all three were from this country.
What is Britain?
200
Locke claimed that thoughts and ideas arise from that which we have taken in through our senses. Before we perceive anything, the mind is this, Latin for "an empty slate."
What is tabula rasa?
200
These winged figures Hume considered to be a complex idea: that which consists of two different experiences which are not in fact related.
What are angels?
200
Locke was known as a forerunner of what were then known as liberal ideas, including the "division of powers" and this four word phrase (as used in Sophie's World) which would later translate to a historical campaign: the Women's Rights Movement.
What is "equality of the sexes."
200
In billiards, when the cue ball strikes the eight ball, we would expect the eight ball to move as a result of the striking force exerted by the cue ball. However, Hume emphasized that the expectation of one thing following another does not lie in the things themselves, but rather in this. Not necessarily over matter . . .
What is the mind?
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The classic formulation of an empirical approach came from this Greek philosopher who lived from 384 BC to 322 BC.
Who is Aristotle?
300
In 1690, Locke published this manuscript in which he attempted to clarify two major questions: what is the source of our ideas; and whether we can rely on what our senses tell us.
What is Essay Concerning Human Understanding?
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Hume believed that these are the immediate sensations of external reality. These are also part of the title of a 1997 song recorded by the ska band The Mighty Mighty Bosstones.
What are impression. ("The Impressions That I Get")
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"When Joanna eats an orange, she gets a look on her face like when other people eat a lemon. She can't take more than one segment at a time. She says it tastes sour. I usually think the same orange is nice and sweet." The excerpted passage from Sophie's World is an illustrations of Locke's belief of sensations such as color, smell, taste, and sound, that reproduce only the effect of the outer reality on our senses. Locke referred to such sensations as these.
What are secondary qualities?
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Hume believed you could not draw a conclusion from a descriptive sentence--"That person wants to live too."--to this type of sentence, "Therefore, you ought not to kill them."
What is normative?
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Empiricists believed that, "there are no innate ideas or conceptions about the world we are brought into before we have seen it. If we do have a conception or an idea that cannot be related to experienced facts, then it is this type of conception." Some of you may also have used this word for your favorite homework assignment.
What is false.
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Locke theorized that simple ideas of sense are worked on by thinking, reasoning, believing, and doubting, thus giving rise to what he called this, which also happens to be the name of a song by progressive rock band Tool from their 2001 album Lateralus.
What is reflection?
400
Hume's analysis of the human mind and his rejection of the unalterable ego was put forward almost 2,500 years before his time, by this famous philosopher from the East.
Who is Buddha?
400
Locke was one of the first philosophers to be interested in sexual roles. He had a great influence on this British economist and civil servant of the 1800s who became an important figure in liberal political philosophy.
Who is John Stuart Mill?
400
Hume's main work, entitled A Treatise of Human Nature, was published when Hume was 28 years old, but he claimed his ideas were formulated at this age. (yeah right . . . )
What is 15 (years)?
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The English term "empiric" derives from the Greek word ἐμπειρία, which is cognate with and translates to a Latin word from which we derive this 10-letter word, a methodical procedure carried out for hypothesis testing.
What is experiment?
500
"When we were infants tasting an apple for the first time, we saw something green, we tasted something fresh and juicy, yummy . . It was a bit sour too. Little by little we bundle many similar sensations together and form concepts like 'apple'." This excerpt from Sophie's World illustrates Locke's belief of this--which is not so simple.
What is a complex idea?
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Hume was not a Christian, neither was he a confirmed atheist. He believed that the existence of God or a god can neither be proved nor disproved--hence known as this.
What is an agnostic?
500
With regard to "extended" reality, Locke agree with this philosopher, that there are certain qualities that man is able to understand with reason.
Who is Descartes?
500
If you burn yourself on a hot oven, you get an immediate "impression." Afterward, you can recollect that you burned yourself. That impression insofar as it is recalled is what Hume would refer to this.
What is an idea?