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a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...

acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...

assented to three kinds of knowledge: intuitive, demonstrative, and sensitive and all are based upon the concept of "ideas" (Kenyo...

top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...

In five pages a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...

The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...

experiential knowledge is correct? David Humes ideas about knowledge are very powerful. He held that people acquire beliefs about ...

one could say that what if one collects a number of red apples, but they are all different kinds. There are Macintosh, red Delicio...

do believe that knowledge comes from testing, such as in science, and has little to do with experience. This is because experience...

While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...

and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...

that one already has some sense of who they are. Therefore, using ones senses cannot be used to initially gain an idea of humanity...

true of actions as well as other events, not in order to argue that determinism is compatible with actions being freely performed ...

event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...

that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...

the other; and, the law of contrast which is opposite the law of similarity where one thing or event may trigger or associate itse...

In five pages this report contrasts and compares the conservative Bentham with the liberal Hume and then applies their concepts to...

supporters of the argument from design see a babys perfect little fingers with unique fingerprints and the fact that the honey bee...

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...

giant metal man falling into the sea. Hogarth is the only one that believes him and rushes away to search in likely places for the...

deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...

see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...

this is a ludicrous statement because if the sun did not rise, there would be no life as human beings need the sun in order for th...

here on Earth. This of course, did not go over well with the Church who was used to organizing everyones life on Earth. Reason, th...

long before the development of measurement and observation tools that could provide "proof" of his position. Scientifically...

they touched, saw, tasted and felt, was actually constructed from a very sophisticated computer program. The people of this future...

at the conclusion that there is no belief of which we can be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherentl...