Saturday, September 22, 2007
Week 3 Empiricism
Empiricist view about our knowledge coming from our senses, make sense (no pun). If you take a new born child one can assume that its cold therefore its crying or its trying to get the fluids out of its lungs, therefore it’s crying. Or when hunger is felt babies may cry. With food, all the different tastes and sensations of eating are built. I believe there is a correlation between the body’s need to stay alive, our senses that help us figure out how to be alive, and the knowledge built from experiences from our senses. I guess to just say knowledge is based on our senses is incorrect. It is the “thing/feeling/instinct” that created the senses. Is physiological or something greater?
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You make some good points here Louis. one objection here might be, is EVERYTHING we know based on the senses? Are there not areas where senses seem less important to what and how we know?
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