Friday, April 18, 2008
Hume "Mind/Body II"
"The transition from the cause to the effect proceeds not from reason; its derived from its origin altogether from custom and experience." I thought this is a good quote to start with before you start reading this blog. There was an example in the book about how when you throw a piece of wood into a fire does it put out the fire or help it? Well we know that it helps it. Why do we know this? Well we know from experience! First, the first and wood begins as an object and the mind makes the idea of the flame becoming more strong. Our mind uses anologies from fact and existence to come up with the idea of what is truly going to happen when the wood is thrown into the fire.
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AHHHH HAA! someone who strongly, it seems, agrees with me. There is not one thing in the this world, that i can think of right now, that could happen and for me to have no prediction on what the effect would be. Like if there were a cause, I (or anyone really) could tell what the likely effect would be, if not the exact effect. I can do this just because I'M sure I would have some type of knowledge of the background information (of the cause), which would help me to infer what would happen when affect by a particular thing. Just like your wood example, it's known that wood burns, and its often used to make fires at that, so you know right there the effect- the wood would help the fire.
i agree with u guys as well...we all most definitely know these thigns from experience! just like when prof. thompson drops the piece of chalk...IT ALWAYS BREAKS..its not going to float to the window or anything and we know this because of experience, our mind stores these 'images' or 'ideas' from past experiences...another example, the triangle...no matter what color shape or size, its always a trianglE! :)
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