Descartes was a rationalist- Hume was an empiricist
- Descartes thought the idea of God is innate
- Hume thought the idea of God comes from experience
- Descartes tried to find certainty using the method of doubt
- Hume thought that all knowledge of the world must come from sense impressions
- Descartes first certainty was I think therefore I am
- Hume stated that the mind at birth is a blank slate
- Descartes gave priority to rational ideas, that are a priori
- Hume gave priority to sense data, which is a posteriori
- AJ Ayer decided what was meaningful by using the verification principle
- Philosophically a tautology is true by definition
- An example of a philosophical tautology is 2+2=4, all bachelors are unmarried and all spinsters are women
- Ayers strong version of the answer to 11 is certainty obtained through observation
- Ayer’s weak version of the answer to 11 is facts can be established as probable
- Doubting everything in philosophy is scepticism
- Building up knowledge from basic certainties is foundationalism
- Incorrigible means not subject to correction
- The statement that our senses are held to be incorrigible
- Descartes explanation of why we are not dreaming now was dreams, like paintings, are based on reality
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