posts tagged ‘thinking’
Copy Principle
5 March 2011 • out of context
tags: copy, imagination, perception, quotes, thinking
“Although we permute and combine ideas in the imagination to form complex ideas of things we haven’t experienced, Hume is adamant that our creative powers extend no farther than “the materials afforded us by the senses and experience.” Complex ideas are composed of simple ideas, which are fainter copies of the simple impressions from which they are ultimately derived, to which they correspond and exactly resemble. Hume offers this “general proposition” as his “first principle…in the science of human nature” (T, 7). Usually called the “Copy Principle,” Hume’s distinctive brand of empiricism is often identified with his commitment to it.”
Antinomy
5 March 2011 • out of context
tags: language, meaning, perception, quotes, senses, thinking, truth, uncertainty
“Antinomy (Greek αντι-, against, plus νομος, law) literally means the mutual incompatibility, real or apparent, of two laws. (…) The term acquired a special significance in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), who used it to describe the equally rational but contradictory results of applying to the universe of pure thought the categories or criteria of reason proper to the universe of sensible perception or experience (phenomena).”
Hence fashion
20 May 2010 • out of context
tags: copy, fashion, quotes, thinking
“It is easier to copy than to think, hence fashion. Besides, a community of originals is not a community.”
Wallace Stevens