Philosophy and Trust in the Senses, from Montaigne to Berkeley
I want to begin this post with a longer sequence of quotations than is usual. The reason is that simply juxtaposing the quotations goes a long way toward telling the story I want to tell. Here, then, is a sequence of comments on philosophy and trust in the senses, ranging in date from 1580 to 1713: We want to find out by reason whether fire is hot, whether snow is white, whether anything within our knowledge is hard or soft. There are ancient stories of the replies made to the man who doubted whether heat exists—they told him to jump...
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Topic(s):
Epistemology
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Galileo Galilei
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George Berkeley
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Historical Thinkers
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Metaphysics
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Michel de Montaigne
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Philosophy
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Philosophy of Mind
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Rene Descartes
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Sense Perception
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Skepticism
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