Philosophy 58

Question 0

For Locke, what was knowledge?

Answer 0

All knowledge of the world must rest on man’s sensory experience

Question 1

What two opposite developments were occurring?

Answer 1

The more man’s knowledge of the world was extending, the more limits beyond which his knowledge could not claim to penetrate were revealed

Question 2

What are the three factors in the process of human knowledge?

Answer 2

The physical object, the mind, and the perception or idea in the mind that represents that object

Question 3

What did Bishop Berkley point out?

Answer 3

If the empiricist analysis of human knowledge is carried through rigorously, then all qualities the human mind registers are ultimately experienced as ideas in the mind

Question 4

What new understanding of “to be” is given?

Answer 4

“To be perceived by a mind” rather than “to be a material substance”

Question 5

When the mind analyzes its experience, what will be found?

Answer 5

All it’s supposed knowledge is based on a continuous chaotic valley of discrete sensations, and on these sensations the mind imposes an order of its own

Question 6

What “ultimate extreme” did Hume bring about?

Answer 6

Only the valley and chaos of perceptions existed, and any order imposed on those perceptions was without objective foundation

Question 7

What did Hume conclude about the mind and its fictions?

Answer 7

The mind was only a bundle of disconnected perceptions, with no valid claims of substantial unity, continuous experience, or internal coherence