A Priori Dialogue Test:

How is knowledge constructed?

Do Material Things Exist?

Descartes- http://philos.wright.edu/DesCartes/Meditation6.html

Where does knowledge come from? How is it constructed?

Hume- http://www.ets.uidaho.edu/mickelsen/texts/Hume%20Treatise/hume%20treatise1.htm#PART I.

Descartes- http://philos.wright.edu/DesCartes/Meditation1.html

What, if any, knowledge do we have a priori?

Do we understand time? Substance? Cause and effect?

Kant http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Philosophy/Kant/cpr/search.html

Kant [cause/effect] http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/cgi-bin/aglimpse-cpr/02?query=cause+and+effect&case=on&whole=on&errors=0&maxlines=300&x=24&y=14#RESULT

Hume: http://www.ets.uidaho.edu/mickelsen/texts/Hume%20Treatise/hume%20treatise1.htm#PART III.

What is the value of empirical knowledge?

 

 

David Hume

Immanuel Kant

Renee Descartes

Plato

 

The purpose of my life to this point has been to establish "one general proposition, That all our simple ideas in their first appearance are deriv'd from simple impressions, which are correspondent to them, and which they exactly represent" (front, 2nd to last paragraph)

In other words, we can be certain about things our senses tell us, so they must be the most reliable.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

Ideas are not dependent upon material stuff. For example, the material chair is dependent upon the idea of a chair. Without the idea of a chair, there would be no material chair. So, ideas are something about which we can be certain because ideas do not change, and they do not break.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      

 

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