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SQA Higher Philosophy C854 76
29 points in 3 topics, with SQA's codes and titles.
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1 Arguments in action
2 Knowledge and doubt
- 2.1 Descartes’ rationalism: Meditations on First Philosophy
- 2.1.1 Meditation 1
- 2.1.1.1 The method of doubt
- 2.1.1.2 The unreliability of the senses
- 2.1.1.3 The dream argument
- 2.1.1.4 The deceiving God argument
- 2.1.1.5 The malicious demon hypothesis
- 2.1.2 Meditation 2
- 2.1.2.1 The Cogito
- 2.1.3 Meditation 3
- 2.1.3.1 Clear and distinct perception
- 2.1.3.2 The Trademark argument
- 2.2 Hume’s empiricism: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- 2.2.1 Section II — the origin of ideas
- 2.2.1.1 Perceptions — impressions and ideas
- 2.2.1.2 Simple and complex ideas
- 2.2.1.3 The copy principle
- 2.2.1.4 The missing shade of blue
- 2.2.2 Section IV — sceptical doubts concerning the operations of the understanding
- 2.2.2.1 Section IV Part 1: knowledge of cause and effect
- 2.2.2.2 Section IV Part 2 — the foundation of conclusions from experience