Short Answer


1		How would Hume and Kant both agree and disagree concerning the role sense experience plays in the attempt to attain knowledge?



2		What is Hume's argument for skepticism concerning the self as an inner, unchanging, immaterial substance?



3		What did Kant mean when he claimed that the mind's own organizing principles define the preconditions of all possible experiences?



4		Why doesn't Kant think we can have metaphysical knowledge concerning the nature of reality as it exists independently of our perceptions?



5		Describe G. W. F. Hegel 's notion of reality as a system of conceptual triads.



6		Do infants have experience, or do they just have sensations? Do cats? Do fish? Explain.



7		What did Arthur Schopenhauer mean when he said that the essence of reality is will?



8		Why was Schopenhauer a pessimist about life?



9		Will the future resemble the past? Can you know that it will, or must you merely assume that it will?



10		What did John Stuart Mill mean when he said that an object is "a permanent possibility of sensation"?

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