Video 13, pt. 1
Hume: without experience (impressions) the mind has no knowledge
- Cause-effect is known only by experience (constant conjunction)
- Our experience is not universalizable, inapplicable to future, or grounded in external objects
- Knowledge of future and world is based on custom and imagination
Criticism of empiricism: there are no intermediary representations
Quine: updated empiricism
- Our experience is a web of beliefs, not a collection of discrete experiences
- Language is learned through the experience of behaviors
- Induction is an instinct