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Monday, March 8, 2021

David Humes Skeptical Empiricism

Section 8 

  • Empiricism is the belief that knowledge comes from experience. Saying that when you are born,  you have a “blank slate and you develop ideas, thought, concepts.. etc from experience. YOU GAIN KNOWLEDGE FROM EXPERIENCE.  Opposed to innatism, which believes that the mind is born with ideas and knowledge.
  • The Design Argument is an argument about the existence of a creator, a god. All knowing, all powerful, and all good.The world we live in is perfectly constructed, with everything working together. Like a complex machine. Something that has been made, created. But if there is a god why is there evil in the world? Is it because it's all apart of a plan that's bigger than us. 

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3. A Little History of Philosophy


1 comment:

  1. You'll be pointing out that Hume rejected the Design Argument in his "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion," right?

    https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4583/4583-h/4583-h.htm

    This is discussed in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume-religion/#ArgDes

    Also see: https://philosophynow.org/issues/83/David_Hume_at_300

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