Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Numenius, PG and David Hume
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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism
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Impressions are our livelier perceptions, Ideas the less lively ones [Hume]
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All ideas are copies of impressions [Hume]
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All objects of enquiry are Relations of Ideas, or Matters of Fact [Hume]
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All reasoning about facts is causal; nothing else goes beyond memory and senses [Hume]
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If books don't relate ideas or explain facts, commit them to the flames [Hume]
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A proposition cannot be intelligible or consistent, if the perceptions are not so [Hume]
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Hume is loose when he says perceptions of different strength are different species [Reid on Hume]
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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 2. Associationism
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Associationism results from having to explain intentionality just with sense-data [Robinson,H on Hume]
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All ideas are connected by Resemblance, Contiguity in time or place, and Cause and Effect [Hume]
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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 4. Pro-Empiricism
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Only madmen dispute the authority of experience [Hume]
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We can only invent a golden mountain by combining experiences [Hume]
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Events are baffling before experience, and obvious after experience [Hume]
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How could Adam predict he would drown in water or burn in fire? [Hume]
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We cannot form the idea of something we haven't experienced [Hume]
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You couldn't reason at all if you lacked experience [Hume]
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When definitions are pushed to the limit, only experience can make them precise [Hume]
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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique
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Hume mistakenly lumps sensations and perceptions together as 'impressions' [Scruton on Hume]
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Even Hume didn't include mathematics in his empiricism [Hume, by Kant]
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If a person had a gap in their experience of blue shades, they could imaginatively fill it in [Hume]
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