1. Business Decision; that compares the costs and benefits of manufacturing a product or product component against purchasing it. If the purchase price is higher than what it would cost the manufacturer to make it, or if the manufacturer has excess capacity that could be used for that product, or the manufacturer's suppliers are unreliable, then the manufacturer may choose to make the product. This assumes the manufacturer has the skills and equipment necessary, access to raw materials, and the ability to meet its own product standards. A company who chooses to make rather than buy is at risk of losing alternative sources, design flexibility, and access to technological innovations.…
In Powerful Ideas, An Introduction to Philosophy, aesthetics means "coming from the senses" which is a derivitive of the Greek word, aisthetikos (241). David Hume's believed that emotions are significant in both aesthetics and ethics. In addition, he stated that aesthetics involves both contemplation and judgment. He strongly believes that not everyone is suitable or qualify to judge art.…
Descartes’s best work is “Meditations on First Philosophy” which is where most of his investigation on the questions of knowing takes place. In meditation I Descartes accepts that he has learned throughout his life with his senses…
Hume’s version of empiricism begins with his distinction between analytic propositions “relationship of ideas,” which he considers to be a priori and true by definition, and synthetic propositions, which he considers to be a posteriori (“matters of fact”), and which are opposite of analytic propositions because they’re derived from our senses.…
The fact that Descartes is even considering the mere question of his own existence just proves that he indeed exists and that is certain. Further, he argues that we are essentially thinking things (res cogitans) that can know our minds clearly and distinctly. Descartes pitches a tent for himself firmly in the rationalist camp, as opposed to the empiricist camp. He constantly emphasizes that the clear and distinct perceptions of the intellect are the only sure means of securing knowledge, and ultimately concludes that the senses are not designed to give us knowledge at all, but are rather meant to help us move through the world in a very practical…
David Hume is a renowned Philosopher that has shaped the ideas of cause and effect (causality) as we know them today. He suggested that true cause and effect relationship has to be the result of A causing B. The occurrence of B happening is contingent on the fact that A occurs before B, thus causing B to happen. Since he holds that this is the only rational way to conclude that one thing causes another to happen, he goes as far as to say that human beings will never know the exact cause that takes place in order for B to be the result. Hume comes to this conclusion because he maintains that there are secrete causes that cannot be observed by the human eye, thus it is impossible for humans to rationally conclude that one thing caused another…
In reading the Enquiry, we have to consider on how Hume’s position is on human understanding and how knowledge is obtained will provide a distinct relationship. We know that he believes that humans gain this knowledge through our senses. Hume has provided two phrases on knowledge and how they are provided. He had stated that the experience that we gain is known as “Matters of Fact” and “Relations of Ideas”. Hume is telling us that the “matters of fact” is how we interact with the external world and “Relations of ideas” is from the internal world or the pure thought. Hume has set out a distinction of all references for the study of humans and…
By proving this, he mentions the idea of experience and how knowledge of things can only come from experience. As Descartes proves that God exists in his mediations, there are very clear flaws that arise, thus causing Hume’s idea of God’s existence to be more reliable than Descartes. Descartes first approaches the idea of the existence of God in his third meditation: Concerning God, That He Exists. He starts out with an idea he mentioned earlier in the Meditations on First Philosophy about how he is a thinking thing. “ I am a thing that thinks, that is to say, a thing that doubts, affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, wills, refrains from willing, and also imagines and senses” (Descartes, 24).…
References: Cottingham, J. 1976. Descartes on ‘Thought’. The Philosophical Quarterly. Vol. 28, No. 112: pp. 261-263.…
With this idea in mind, Descartes’s conception of knowledge would not allow him to know anything at all because of the idea that he has been feed false information his entire life. The conclusion that Descartes comes to was…
This could mean memories, thoughts and or beliefs. Hume also demonstrates an argument for the idea of God. I personally think his argument about God worked much better than Descartes’. He says that the idea of God can be determined by the impressions we have of “wise” and “good.” When referring to how we get from one idea to another, Hume explains how it corresponds.…
The existence of God has be scrutinized and drafted anew countless times. Philosophers René Descartes and Immanuel Kant were no different. Each respectively had their own rationale to the existence of God. This paper will argue in favor of Kant’s objections to Descartes’ a priori justification of God’s existence.…
Have you ever felt that you didn’t know what your purpose was in this world? Or if you even exist at some times? Well by even questioning the idea of existence, by definition of Descartes and David Cunning, you do exist. Descartes came up with this notion of “I am. I exist,” which means if you are doubt, ponder, think or judge then you exist (THC 224). Before we get too far into Descartes beliefs we need to understand his two conjectures of the res extensa and the res cogitans, which respectively means extended thing and the thinking thing (THC 223).…
He explains his opinions on this matter in his second meditation, in which he attempts to clarify what “I” is, this “thing that thinks.” Descartes asserts that he is not only a thinking thing, but he is also capable of imagining and sensing. Descartes continues by questioning how he came to know this “I.” He explains how it cannot be due to our senses through his wax argument, and that it is not due to our imagination either because of the possibility of deception. This knowledge of “I” does not depend on any of the things he stimulates in his imagination because it cannot depend on anything that he doesn’t yet know. He explains that everything belonging to the nature of the body could be nothing more than dreams, so he realizes that nothing he can know by means of imagination involves the knowledge that he has of…
While many rationalists such as René Descartes support the notion that the concept of Inception is not possible, empiricists such as David Hume may think differently. Hume was an eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher known for his system of radical and philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. In one of his works, Hume stated that one cannot create completely new ideas without either prior knowledge of those ideas, or experiencing those ideas. Put differently, he believed that the ideas of an individual are derived or inspired by other ideas that the individual has observed, because there is no such thing as an “original idea.” Taking Hume’s theory into account, in the movie Inception, the protagonist Dom Cobb teaches his new architect, Ariadne, how dreaming works. In their shared dream, Ariadne comes across Dom’s wife, Mal. While this…