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1 From Rationalism to Empiricism
2 Rationalism vs. Empiricism Empiricism: All knowledge ultimately rests upon sense experience. All justification (our reasons for thinking our beliefs are true) ultimately relies upon information from sense experience. Seeing is believing. Rationalism: Not all knowledge ultimately rests upon sense experience. At least some of our beliefs can be justified without any appeal to information from sense experience. E.g., 2+2=4.
3 Descartes, Locke, Berkeley Descartes is a rationalist. Descartes believes that the reliability of our senses can only be established by a process of reasoning that is itself independent of what we might know through sense experience. Locke and Berkeley are both empiricists. Both believe that everything we know must ultimately stem from sense experience, i.e., from our sensations.
4 From Descartes to Locke What do we directly know in sense experience? What do we immediately perceive?
5 Hey, Descartes, Whadayaknow?
6 What I really knew vs. what I thought I I know that I exist. knew I know that I am a thinking thing, a mind. i.e., the subject of conscious experiences. I know I have ideas or sensations in my mind. These mental contents are what I directly or immediately perceive. But I have simply assumed that my ideas come from things outside me, and that they resemble those things in all respects.
7 Descartes: (What he says in 3 rd Med.) What we directly or immediately know in sense experience is merely an idea or sensation that exists in our minds. In hallucination, these ideas do not (correctly) resemble any external object. In perception (as opposed to hallucination) they do.
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9 Sensations vs. Material Objects According to Descartes, ideas or sensations exist only in our minds, and they are what we immediately or directly know in sense experience. Material objects ( real things ) exist outside our minds. They are not (at least not for Descartes, Locke, or Berkeley) what we immediately experience. Rather, they are (for Descartes and Locke) the causes of what we immediately experience (viz., of the ideas or sensations that exist only in our minds).
10 Sensations vs. Material Objects Mind Idea/Sensation Object exists in the mind exists in the world
11 Descartes, Locke, Berkeley Locke and Berkeley agree with Descartes that we directly perceive merely ideas or sensations, which exist only in the mind. Locke agrees with Descartes that there is a world of objects that exists independently of our ideas and sensations. Descartes argues that there is such a world outside our minds. Locke simply assumes there is such a real world. Berkeley disagrees with Descartes and Locke about a world that exists independently of mind. Berkeley claims that objects are merely collections of ideas that exist only in the mind!
12 Descartes, Locke, Berkeley Metaphysical Realism vs. Idealism Descartes and Locke are metaphysical realists. That is, they believe in the existence of a material world that exists independently of our consciousness of it. Berkeley disagrees. He is a not a metaphysical realist, but, instead, an idealist. (More on idealism next time.) All three start with the same analysis of sense perception: in sensation, what we directly and immediately perceive is always an idea or sensation that exists only in the mind.
13 John Locke Ideas vs. Qualities Primary Qualities vs. Secondary Qualities
14 Ideas vs. Qualities
15 John Locke Whatsoever the mind perceives in itself, or is the immediate object of perception, thought, or understanding, that I call idea; and the power to produce any idea in our mind, I call quality of the [thing] wherein that power is. [Paragraph 8]
16 Locke s Causal Theory of Perception: Idea: Whatsoever the mind perceives in itself is the immediate object of perception. Quality: The power [in an object] to produce any ideas in our mind.
17 Ideas vs. Qualities Ideas: Exist in our minds. They are the sensations we are directly aware of. Qualities: Exist in objects that exist outside of our minds. They are the properties in the objects that cause us to have various kinds of sensations.
18 Qualities (in objects) cause ideas (in our minds) Mind Idea Object (and its qualities) Our ideas (of objects) include ideas of these qualities. Objects have qualities that cause the ideas we have of them.
19 Welcome to Reality! Real objects (objects that exist outside of our consciousness whether we perceive them or not) Have all sorts of properties Also know as qualities Such as their shape, size, weight, color, temperature, etc. These are qualities in the objects.
20 We have ideas of objects These objects (by reflecting light waves, etc.) cause various sorts of ideas or sensations to exist in our minds. Objects exist in the world, while ideas exist only in our minds. So, the quality of shape (in the object) causes our idea or sensation of shape. Likewise, the quality of color (in the object) causes our idea or sensation of color.
21 A Question from Descartes
22 Do our sensations resemble their objects? Recall that Descartes big worry was whether or not there were any objects outside our minds. (By the end of the 6 th Med., he assures us that there are.) But he said we also make mistakes in thinking that our ideas always resembled the objects in the real world that caused us to have those sensations.
23 Do the ideas in our mind resemble the qualities in the objects that caused these ideas in our minds? Mind s Eye Idea Object Does this resemble this?
24 Locke s Answer Only sometimes. Some of our ideas do resemble qualities in the object, but some do not. Our ideas of Primary Qualities resemble those qualities in the object. Our ideas of Secondary Qualities do not.
25 Primary vs. Secondary Qualities
26 Primary and Secondary Locke divides the qualities (Qualities, remember, are qualities of objects.) into two kinds: Primary qualities: Such as size, shape, weight, location, etc.; and Secondary qualities: Such as colors, sounds, tastes, smells and temperatures (i.e., amounts of warmth or coolness).
27 What Locke says: the ideas of primary qualities of bodies are resemblances of them, and their patterns do really exist in the objects themselves but the ideas produced in us by secondary qualities have no resemblance of them at at all. There is nothing like our ideas existing in the bodies themselves. [Paragraph # 15]
28 The Crucial Difference Some qualities of objects cause ideas in us where these ideas actually resemble the qualities in the object. These are primary qualities. Some qualities of objects cause ideas in us where these ideas do not resemble the qualities in the object. These are secondary qualities.
29 Consider the red and white colours in porphyry. Hinder light from shining on it, and its colour vanishes It produces no idea in us Upon the return of light it produces these same appearances in us Can anyone think any real alterations are made in the porphyry by the presence or absence of light when, it has no colour in the dark?
30 If the sensation changes (when I change the light) But the object doesn t change Then the changing sensation can t resemble. the unchanging quality in the object.
31 Other examples of the same principle: The sound of an approaching or receding siren. The sound the siren produces doesn t change, but the pitch that we hear does. Put a hot hand in luke-warm water, and it will feel cool. Put a cold hand in the same water, and it will feel warm. But the water (and all its qualities) haven t varied. So, neither the (sensations of) coolness nor warmth (that you feel) can resemble their causes in the water (because the sensations are different, but have the same cause).
32 Why? In sense experience, objects cause us to have sensations. Locke says that sensations don t always resemble the qualities of these objects. Why? Why don t our ideas always resemble the qualities in the objects that cause us to have those ideas?
33 Explaining the difference
34 Explaining Sensations We have scientific explanations for how objects can cause us to have sensations. They explain how different properties in objects cause different kinds of sensations in us. Exp.: Seeing red vs. seeing blue. Different qualities effect our sense organs differently, and cause different kinds of sensations or ideas in our minds. These qualities need not resemble the sensations they cause.
35 Paragraph 11 The next question to be considered is, how bodies produce ideas in us; and that is manifestly by impulse By impulse here, Locke is suggesting that objects impel particles that interact with our sense organs. This is the physics of his day. Today, we would say that objects reflect wavelengths of light, rather than that they emit particles.
36 Paragraph 12 If.. external objects be not united to our minds when they produce ideas [in us] it is evident that some motion must be thence continued by our nerves by some parts of our bodies, to the brains there to produce in our minds the particular ideas we have of them.
37 Sensations as Effects So, sensations are the effects of causal interactions with the world. But effects need not resemble their causes. Smoke doesn t resemble fire! Our sensations of color, sound, taste, smell, and temperature don t resemble the qualities in the object that cause us to have those sensations.
38 Paragraph 13 the ideas of secondary qualities are also produced by the operation of insensible particles on our senses. the different motions and shapes, sizes and numbers of such particles, affecting our sense organs, producing in us the various sensations we have of the colours and smells of bodies.
39 Paragraph 13 (Cont.) It being no more impossible to conceive that God should attach such ideas [i.e., ideas of colours and smells] to motions that in no way resemble them than it is that he should attach the idea of pain to the motion of a piece of steel dividing our flesh, which in no way resembles the pain.
40 In other words If the sensation of pain doesn t resemble the qualities in the object that caused that sensation, Why should the sensations or color or smell be any different? Sensations need not resemble the qualities that cause them in order to be sensations of them, they only need to be caused by these qualities.
41 So, Objects outside our minds cause sensations in our minds. Different properties of objects cause different kinds of sensations. Science hypothesizes the properties objects must really have to explain the ideas we have of them. As long as a specific quality in the object uniformly causes a certain kind of sensation in us, there is no reason that these qualities need to resemble the sensations that they cause.
42 True Colors?
43 Back to Locke Locke says our ideas of primary qualities are resemblances of them. i.e., an object s primary qualities cause ideas in us that resemble those very qualities. Locke says our ideas of secondary qualities do not. i.e., an object s secondary qualities cause ideas in us that do not resemble those qualities in the object that caused us to have those ideas.
44 Its Not Easy Being Blue So, being blue (a secondary quality) is a property an object has because it has the power to cause certain kinds of ideas in our minds. It has this power because of the primary qualities of the particles out of which it is composed, and how these particles interact with our bodies in sense perception.
45 Being Blue So the blueness of a blue chair is real, but is not a fundamental quality of the particles the chair is composed of. The blueness of the chair is explained in terms of the fundamental properties of the particles out of which it is composed. I.e., the secondary quality (of being blue) just is being composed of particles with certain primary qualities.
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47 Where did Blue go? Which is blue? The sensation (idea) in our mind, or The quality (power) in the object? Blue is a quality of objects. Sensations aren t blue, any more than they are heavy! Sensations are of blue.
48 Stop me if you ve heard this one.
49 Falling Trees You ve all heard this one: If a tree falls in the forest with no one there to hear it, does it make any sound? How do you think Locke would answer this question. What does science tell you? Hint: The correct answer is: Yes and No.
50 Answer The tree in the forest disturbs air waves whether or not there is anyone there to hear it. (This is realism. ) But if no one is present, it doesn t produce any auditory sensations in anyone s mind. The confusion: We use the word sound both to talk about airwaves and to talk about sensations. But these are different things. The falling tree disturbs air waves (makes a sound on one use), but doesn t cause any sensations (doesn t make a sound, on the other use).
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