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Essays 451 - 480
and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...
there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...
be beneficial in the long run. Do the ends justify the means? Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right or wrong, or what one...
assented to three kinds of knowledge: intuitive, demonstrative, and sensitive and all are based upon the concept of "ideas" (Kenyo...
see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...
awareness of the moment at hand and draws attention to the fleeting nature of existence that unifies all things. "The ideas of Se...
classic volume, the philosopher demonstrates that people know the causes of events but that this knowledge is really perhaps based...
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...
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 ...
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...
the other; and, the law of contrast which is opposite the law of similarity where one thing or event may trigger or associate itse...
that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...
going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...
story has on an impressionable young mind. What did Isaac think and feel at the time? What must he have thought when he was bound ...
a "relentless critic of metaphysics and religion" (David Hume, 2002). Hume argued that "our purely philosophical conceptions of G...
speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...
"experienced" internally in some manner, as well as externally via touch or logical use of the item in daily living. In thi...
suicide ideation is often aligned with a lack of clear thinking. Thus, suicide should not be prohibited or encouraged, but rather ...
One will of course possess an impression from the sight, and supposes that there is a causal relationship between the flames and t...
More specifically, Hume argued that cause is the idea that one event makes another event inevitable and/or necessary (The Philosop...
is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...
(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...
the chance to break free from such constraints. The global society was ready for a tremendous change in direction following the t...
experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...
Hume was often at odds with other philosophers when it came to his personal perception of human nature and the ways of life....
from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...
made consistent"; meaning that its hard to believe we can draw the wrong conclusions if we have true premises to begin with (Berke...