Mario Heard
Philosophical Essay Outline
I. Intro
The essay takes a different approach as it involves the evaluation of the following philosophical Puzzle: “If a tree falls in the forest and there's no one around to hear it, does it make a sound?” (1) How is this philosophical puzzle an epistemological problem? And (2) how would John Locke answer it? The aim of the essay will be to explore how the questions create epistemological issues, mainly focusing on the subjective elements of personal experience. In this case, it is the sound of the tree falling. The puzzle will help to create a discussion on the human limit; that people claim to be have acquainted with an aspect solely based on sensory experienced. Finally, John Locke’s say the father of empiricism; will be instrumental to create an explanation of the situation at hand and create a logical explanation.
II. Theory of Empiricism
Explains John Locke’s Theory of empiricism.
What makes a claim of truth legitimate? This is the question that the philosopher John Locke, tried to explain through the theory of empiricism. In line with discussing what is considered to be the central in the development of knowledge. Explained with the simple concept that knowledge comes from experience.
III. The Philosophical Puzzle fitting in epistemology
Make a connection between epistemology with the philosophical puzzle.
Form focusing of the theory of empiricism by John Locke one aspect is clear, is that Knowledge comes from experience. In this case, the puzzle looks at a tree falling in the forest and no one is around to hear it. The tree falling is the action hearing the fall is the experience. Therefore, since no one experience the fall no one will have the knowledge of the tree falling. The puzzle is fitting in John Locke’s Theory as no one will be there to gain the sensory experience of hearing the tree to make the sound. Maybe it fell and it landed on conclusion surface and did not make sound or it fell on a hard ground and it made a sound. The fact remains that no one can prove that.
IV. Weaknesses in Empiricism
Showing that knowledge is not only based on experience.
The tree fell and no one was there to experience the sound that or experience a sound that was not made. At first one will automatically and normally say that the tree made a sound, mostly because of experience when something falls it usually makes a sound; and if for the first time that does not happen then that will be considered as new knowledge. Therefore, the previous experience of stimuli and reaction; falling and making sounds; gives us the knowledge that the tree made a sound whether they were not there or not.
V. Conclusion
Empiricism is accurate to some extent, but it is not fault proof. It might be accurate in various aspects in life; like feeling. When you feel love or hatred or malice, any feeling that someone gives you is accurate mainly because you need experience to get this knowledge. But the physical experiences,.
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1. Mario Heard
Philosophical Essay Outline
I. Intro
The essay takes a different approach as it involves the
evaluation of the following philosophical Puzzle: “If a tree falls
in the forest and there's no one around to hear it, does it make a
sound?” (1) How is this philosophical puzzle an epistemological
problem? And (2) how would John Locke answer it? The aim of
the essay will be to explore how the questions create
epistemological issues, mainly focusing on the subjective
elements of personal experience. In this case, it is the sound of
the tree falling. The puzzle will help to create a discussion on
the human limit; that people claim to be have acquainted with
an aspect solely based on sensory experienced. Finally, John
Locke’s say the father of empiricism; will be instrumental to
create an explanation of the situation at hand and create a
logical explanation.
II. Theory of Empiricism
Explains John Locke’s Theory of empiricism.
What makes a claim of truth legitimate? This is the question
that the philosopher John Locke, tried to explain through the
theory of empiricism. In line with discussing what is considered
to be the central in the development of knowledge. Explained
with the simple concept that knowledge comes from experience.
III. The Philosophical Puzzle fitting in epistemology
Make a connection between epistemology with the philosophical
puzzle.
Form focusing of the theory of empiricism by John Locke one
2. aspect is clear, is that Knowledge comes from experience. In
this case, the puzzle looks at a tree falling in the forest and no
one is around to hear it. The tree falling is the action hearing
the fall is the experience. Therefore, since no one experience
the fall no one will have the knowledge of the tree falling. The
puzzle is fitting in John Locke’s Theory as no one will be there
to gain the sensory experience of hearing the tree to make the
sound. Maybe it fell and it landed on conclusion surface and did
not make sound or it fell on a hard ground and it made a sound.
The fact remains that no one can prove that.
IV. Weaknesses in Empiricism
Showing that knowledge is not only based on experience.
The tree fell and no one was there to experience the sound that
or experience a sound that was not made. At first one will
automatically and normally say that the tree made a sound,
mostly because of experience when something falls it usually
makes a sound; and if for the first time that does not happen
then that will be considered as new knowledge. Therefore, the
previous experience of stimuli and reaction; falling and making
sounds; gives us the knowledge that the tree made a sound
whether they were not there or not.
V. Conclusion
Empiricism is accurate to some extent, but it is not fault proof.
It might be accurate in various aspects in life; like feeling.
When you feel love or hatred or malice, any feeling that
someone gives you is accurate mainly because you need
experience to get this knowledge. But the physical experiences,
we utilize previous experience to assume outcomes which most
of the are correct, mainly because it is how the Science works;
every action has a reaction, despite being present or not.
VI. References
3. Dawes, G. W. (2019). Empiricism. A Companion to Atheism
and Philosophy, 97-110.
Gustafsson, S. (2017). Empiricism. The Wiley‐Blackwell
Encyclopedia of Social Theory, 1-2.
Jolley, N. (2018). Locke and Malebranche: Intelligibility and
Empiricism. Locke and Cartesian Philosophy, 205-218.
Locke, J. (2018). John Locke and Emergence
Empiricism. Learning Theories for Early Years Practice, 12.
Meyers, R. G. (2014). Understanding empiricism. Routledge.
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