Philosophy 3

What do we directly observe, according to David Hume?

Sense impressions

What is the self, according to Hume?

A sequence of perceptions.

Why can't we have cause and effect knowledge, according to Hume?

We can never observe a necessary connection between events.

Why can't past experience justify claims about the future, according to Hume?

We can never know whether or not the future will be like the past.

What is perception, for Immanuel Kant?

The application of the organizing principles of the mind to sense impressions.

Why can we know that all of our future experiences will be in space and time, according to Kant?

Because these are preconditions of all possible experience based on the mind's own organizing principles.

What does Kant mean by the noumenal world?

The world as it really is, independently of our experiences of it.

Why doesn't Kant think that we can have knowledge of the things-in-themselves (das ding-an-sich)?

Because the organizing principles of the mind do not apply to them.

According to Absolute Idealism, what is the relationship between being real and being knowable?

All reality is knowable.

What is the highest reality (the Absolute), for Hegel?

Infinite thought thinking itself.