Exam 3: Plato the Divided Line and the Cave

Describe in detail what will happen to the prisoner if he is released into the world outside the cave.

Aristotle claims that the "substance of each thing is that which is peculiar to it, which does not belong to anything else." However, that which is such as to belong to more than one thing (what several things have in common) is called the universal.

According to Plato, knowledge belongs to the ...

For Kant, "the inference from a given effect to a determinate cause is always uncertain, since the effect may be due to more than one cause."

Shepherd argues that the mind is conscious of the interruptions of its sensations; therefore, the ultimate causes which exist ready and capable to renew them, must be uninterrupted causes.

Hawley relates that "One widely-discussed example is the apparent conflict between the special theory of relativity (STR) and presentism, the view that only what is present exists."

Hume says, "The mind has never anything present to it but the deliberations, and cannot possibly reach any experience of their connection with objects. The supposition of such a connection is, therefore, without any foundation in reasoning."

Aristotle tells us that when we talk about "how the world is what it is" we are in the domain of rhetoric.

Cavendish holds that matter is infinite and eternal, thus it is impossible that any other new matter should be created.

For Shepherd, the readiness to appear when called for by our sense organs and the mind, means that a third set of objects is needed in order to determine those perceptions which are neither the organs of sense nor mind in general, results in the idea of the continual existence of objects unperceived.

What are some examples of "images" that Plato lists, and how do they relate to physical objects?

MacDonald remarks that "if there are no trains, stations, potatoes or people then propositions about them, other than those which assert or imply their non-existence, must be …"

According to Leibniz, everything in the world, besides monads, is a ...

Explain what Hume means when he says, "Bereave matter of all its intelligible qualities, both primary and secondary, you in a manner annihilate it, and leave only a certain unknown, inexplicable something, as the cause of our perceptions; a notion so imperfect, that no skeptic will think it worth while to contend against it."

The kind of knowledge of which we can never be certain because it is derived from limited sense perception is matters of fact.

Hawley calls the attempt to show that the scientific metaphysics is not involved in generating novel prediction, and thus that its appearance in a scientific theory does not give us reason to think it true, Undermining.

According to Plato, the areas below the divided line are referred to as the ...

In the Allegory of the Cave, Plato ask us to imagine that the people who are chained can see ...

Plato writes, "Now, that which imparts truth to the known and the power of knowing to the knower is what I would have you term the Veil of Identity."

Heidegger uses the term Dasein to mean "humans as they relate to being."