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Single Idea 2702
[filed under theme 12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 4. Pro-Empiricism
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Full Idea
None but a fool or a madman will ever pretend to dispute the authority of experience.
Gist of Idea
Only madmen dispute the authority of experience
Source
David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], IV.II.31)
Book Ref
Hume,David: 'Enquiries Conc. Human Understanding, Morals', ed/tr. Selby-Bigge/Nidditch [OUP 1975], p.36
The
20 ideas
with the same theme
[reasons for favouring the empirical view of knowledge]:
1500
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When we sleep, reason closes down as the senses do
[Heraclitus, by Sext.Empiricus]
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543
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All men long to understand, as shown by their delight in the senses
[Aristotle]
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1822
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Reason can't judge senses, as it is based on them
[Epicurus, by Diog. Laertius]
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5702
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The senses are much the best way to distinguish true from false
[Lucretius]
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5729
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If the senses are deceptive, reason, which rests on them, is even worse
[Lucretius]
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16637
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The absolute boundaries of our thought are the ideas we get from senses and the mind
[Locke]
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3938
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Geometry is originally perceived by senses, and so is not purely intellectual
[Berkeley]
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2183
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We can only invent a golden mountain by combining experiences
[Hume]
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2186
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We cannot form the idea of something we haven't experienced
[Hume]
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2194
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How could Adam predict he would drown in water or burn in fire?
[Hume]
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2702
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Only madmen dispute the authority of experience
[Hume]
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2205
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You couldn't reason at all if you lacked experience
[Hume]
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2217
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When definitions are pushed to the limit, only experience can make them precise
[Hume]
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21285
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Events are baffling before experience, and obvious after experience
[Hume]
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6577
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For Kant, our conceptual scheme is disastrous when it reaches beyond experience
[Kant, by Fogelin]
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16925
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Appearance gives truth, as long as it is only used within experience
[Kant]
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12108
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All real knowledge rests on observed facts
[Comte]
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9082
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Clear concepts result from good observation, extensive experience, and accurate memory
[Mill]
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5185
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It is further sense-experience which informs us of the mistakes that arise out of sense-experience
[Ayer]
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21685
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Empiricism says evidence rests on the senses, but that insight is derived from science
[Quine]
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