„This, therefore, being my Purpose to enquire into the Original, Certainty, and Extent of humane Knowledge; together with the Grounds and Degrees of Belief, Opinion, and Assent; I shall not at present meddle with the Physical Consideration of the Mind; or trouble my self to examine, wherein its Essence consists, or by what Motions of our Spirits, or Alterations of our Bodies, we come to have any Sensation by our Organs, or any Ideas in our Understandings; and whether those Ideas do in their Formation, any, or all of them, depend on Matter, or no.“ (Book I, Chap. 1, §2) #Locke #knowledge #mind #idea #understanding
Archiv der Kategorie: Erkenntnistheorie
Hume: Cause and Effect
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„All reasonings concerning matter of fact seem to be founded on the relation of Cause and Effect. By means of that relation alone we can go beyond the evidence of our memory and senses.“ (p. 35) #Hume #cause #effect #MatterOfFact
Leibniz: Les Monades
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„Les Monades n’ont point de fenêtres, par lesquelles quelque chose y puisse entrer ou sortir.“ (no. 7) #Leibniz #Monade
Berkeley: Real Knowlege
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„Nothing seems of more Importance, towards Erecting a firm System of sound and real Knowlege, which may be Proof against the Assaults of Scepticism, than to lay the beginning in a distinct Explication, of what is meant by Thing, Reality, Existence: For in vain shall we Dispute, concerning the real Existence of Things, or pretend to any Knowlege thereof, so long as we have not fix’d the meaning of those Words. Thing or Being is the most general Name of all, it comprehends under it two Kinds intirely distinct and heterogeneous, and which have nothing common but the Name, viz. Spirits and Ideas. The former are Active, Indivisible, Incorruptible Substances: The latter are Inert, Fleeting, Perishable Passions, or Dependent Beings, which subsist not by themselves, but are supported by, or Exist in Minds or Spiritual Substances.“ (§89) #Berkeley #knowlege
Berkeley: Philosophy being nothing else but the study of Wisdom and Truth
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„Philosophy being nothing else but the study of Wisdom and Truth, it may with reason be expected, that those who have spent most Time and Pains in it shou’d enjoy a greater calm and serenity of Mind, a greater clearness and evidence of Knowlege, and be less disturb’d with Doubts and Difficulties than other Men.“ (§1) #Berkeley #philosophy #wisdom #truth