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able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatically programmed for response. The student might surmise that o...
director of our own narrative, but we can never say for certain how the story will end. Although we make plans, and try to foresee...
is not particularly concerned with explaining the universe, but rather offers the argument to how that God exists. "You ask me, wh...
the importance of direct experience in the formulation of knowledge, is at the core of Humes overarching skepticism, which makes a...
In six pages Scottish philosopher David Hume's skepticism concerning the existence of miracles is discussed which although interes...
be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...
Therefore, Kant reasons, perception of this permanent is possible only through a thing outside me" (Kant 245, B275). What makes K...
questions that are not answered by the phrase "I think. Therefore I am." What if one does not think? Does that prove that he or sh...
some strategy that starts from other beliefs that we have. Inference, for example, is such a strategy. One might infer that it is ...
Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...
Indeed, boys tend to like football and rough house almost from birth where girls seem to mature into beings who like to talk on th...
perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...
the considerations surrounding his concepts of the mind and he supports his contentions with direct demonstrations of the applicab...
long before the development of measurement and observation tools that could provide "proof" of his position. Scientifically...
demonstrate the method that the self employs to gain knowledge of the world. The first question has to do with whether or not th...
or the perception of identity changes through time. For example, someone grows up and has certain experiences and perceptions and ...
present impression, the sight of a flame, for instance, results in a causal relationship in the mind of the observer between flame...
In five pages this paper contrasts the philosophical perspectives of David Hume and Thomas Aquinas regarding religion and ultimate...
that the object of thought is capable of being. Hume understands that, quite simplistically, the soul is simply . . . the soul. ...
other words, lets say that someone came along and said that the sky was falling and that it was a miracle! Basically what Hume is...
defines it as sort of a liveliness of vividness that accompanies the perception of a new idea. A belief, he says, is more than an...
In five pages this report compares Hume and Berkeley in terms of their philosophies' differences and similarities particularly as ...
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power to enforce decisions (Lloyd, 2002). Hobbes also believed that an absolute monarchy was prefereable to other forms of govern...
a philosopher, Philo a skeptic and Demea a theologian. Well see if this is correct and analyze one of the arguments. Cleanthes O...
any attempt to model understanding of God on the basis of a study of humanity is simply untenable. What is the soul of man? A mixt...
In ten pages Hume's life, works, and writings are considered including his Treatise of Human Nature, with an assessment of his inf...
to change moral systems developed before him with complicity in an illegitimate process of reasoning" (p.6). Essentially, he is as...
considerable empirical consideration but one which has yet to be either proved or refuted. Such as statement, therefore is not a ...
have been the fact that the individual has MS or CP or some other disease. Another reason might have been that they simply were no...