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In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the perception theories of David Hume and John Locke and exposes flaws in the empi...

In six pages this paper discusses causation and knowledge in a consideration of the differences between the philosophies of David ...

there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...

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...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

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

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

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

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...

from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...

More specifically, Hume argued that cause is the idea that one event makes another event inevitable and/or necessary (The Philosop...

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"experienced" internally in some manner, as well as externally via touch or logical use of the item in daily living. In thi...

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...

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...

points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...

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

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...

at least, Hume is positing that reason does not have a very important role to play in life, thus, reason, to Hume, would be defini...

and Anaximenes (Is Philosophy Possible?). However, there were a great many others who contributed to the mainstream of postulate...