Philosophy 3 – Flashcards
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What do we directly observe, according to David Hume?
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Sense impressions
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What is the self, according to Hume?
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A sequence of perceptions.
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Why can't we have cause and effect knowledge, according to Hume?
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We can never observe a necessary connection between events.
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Why can't past experience justify claims about the future, according to Hume?
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We can never know whether or not the future will be like the past.
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What is perception, for Immanuel Kant?
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The application of the organizing principles of the mind to sense impressions.
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Why can we know that all of our future experiences will be in space and time, according to Kant?
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Because these are preconditions of all possible experience based on the mind's own organizing principles.
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What does Kant mean by the noumenal world?
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The world as it really is, independently of our experiences of it.
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Why doesn't Kant think that we can have knowledge of the things-in-themselves (das ding-an-sich)?
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Because the organizing principles of the mind do not apply to them.
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According to Absolute Idealism, what is the relationship between being real and being knowable?
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All reality is knowable.
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What is the highest reality (the Absolute), for Hegel?
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Infinite thought thinking itself.
