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BI 142 Cameron Buckner: The New DoGMA

Brain Inspired

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Hume's Theory of the Faculties

Hume, i think, takes a different approach. I think locke does too, but hume makes it even more explicit. The way that hume thinks about the faculties is not as some kind of dispositional defin were you just have this thing that has the power to do this. He treats it rather like a kind of empirical hypothesis where you want it to find like a sort of cluster of a effects e nows. So these are things like fusing together different concepts to make a novel concept. And in that sense, it can teach us some of the key bits that hum couldn't possibly explain on his day. It can fill in some of those critical ellipses that

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