2.  If I were to ask you to define the words “white and cold” what would you say?  If I were to ask you to describe the word “pain” how would you do it?

3.  Locke and Hume are empiricists but believe in slightly different things.

4. The causal chain of ideas can be linked to experience. Experience usually means observation of the world through sense perception. This is known as the empiricists argument (from the Greek word emperia meaning experience) because experience is the source of all of our ideas. Give your own example of an empirical claim. Locke quote

5.  Therefore ideas depend on _____________. I will have an idea if and only if I have _______________ the corresponding sense ___________.

6.  Locke  Unless a proposed idea can be linked to any experience then the words are merely empty. Words without reference to experience are senseless.  For example: describe the Sahara desert.

7.  Draw a “golden mountain”  What do you think some philosophers say about drawing ideas based on sense perceptions alone.

8.  In your own words describe what Hume is saying about the strong claim.  Do you think Hume is right about what can be imagined?

9.  Hume says that the imagination can build an image of an object or event that we have not yet apprehended in experience by piecing together bits of evidence like a police efit.  The evidence comes from sense impressions.  It may be vague and confused but can be clarified by sense experience.  Hume calls this concept acquisition.

10. Perceptions ImpressionsIdeas sensation Reflection

12.  We have a perception of an object that gives us our initial impression: I open my eyes (perception) and I see a nice a view (impression) sensation comes from our ideas of the impression : I think this is a beautiful scene.  I from reflection come from our experience in our mind. : I remember the view is beautiful  Label the statements in the 1 st slide.

13. Impressions are more vivid than ideas. Ideas are faint copies of impressions

14.  “If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is.”  What is Blake saying here about misunderstandings?

17. A posteriori knowledge is any other sort of knowledge, e.g. knowledge the attainment or justification of which requires reference to experience. This is also called em....... knowledge. A posteriori em....... knowledge A priori knowledge is knowledge gained or justified by reason alone, without the direct or indirect influence of experience (here, experience usually means observation of the world through sense perception.) A priorireason

18. These are statements that can be tested either using a priori or a posteriori knowledge. They can be either analytical or synthetic. E.g. – In analytical propositions concepts in the proposition (statement) can be true or false. “all bachelors are unmarried” In synthetic propositions, the concept is not true or false in the meaning of the word but in the meaning of the state of affairs: “bachelors are less happy than married men.”

19. Fill in the gaps: 1. All a posteriori knowledge is ________________ 2. All a priori knowledge is ___________________ 3. Kant claims that some a priori knowledge is synthetic.