Empiricism Flashcards
(11 cards)
1
Q
What’s does Hume say
A
Blind man doesn’t know/ have the concept of colour
2
Q
What do empiricist believe
A
All knowledge is traceable back to experience
3
Q
What is Locke definition of innatness
A
Present to the mind at birth
Universally assented
Know without any experience
4
Q
Lockes criticisms of innatism
A
Blind man can’t see colour - ‘for why would God have given us eyes’
Ideas absent to children or idiots
No ideas universally assented to
5
Q
Who are empiricist
A
Hume
Locke
6
Q
What are impressions
A
Experiences
7
Q
What do impressions give
A
Ideas
8
Q
A simple impression is…
A
The experience of red, shinny, round
9
Q
A complex expression is….
A
The experience of an apple
10
Q
A simple idea is
A
The idea of the concept ‘redness’ ‘shinnyness’
11
Q
The complex ideas is
A
The idea of the concept ‘Apple’
