that he was able to discover is: " I think; therefore I am". These ideas, for him, were clear, distinct, and beyond question. He established a fundamental principle that all true ideas must be clear and distinct. "The mind has its norms of clearness and distinctness, norms given to the mind by nature." Knowledge comes to man. Each idea can be accepted if, after it has been reasoned out, it is clear and distinct. 5. What's Kant's view of knowledge and mind?Kant believed that we receive impressions from the environment and that the made shapes these impressions into ideas. The mind, for him, is like a bowl with many crevices. When water is poured into the bowl, it fills the crevices. In this same way the environment extracts impressions into the mind and the mind then shapes them in accord with the nature of this mind. Knowledge to Kant is universal. This is due to the fact that minds all have certain fundamental categories such, as totality, unity, plurality, and reality. We cannot know the world outside of the mind. We can bring ideas together and make them generalizations, but these are judgments and not provable ideas. 6. What's Comte's view? Mills theory of induction? Spencer's relations theory? Comte took the position that the only knowledge worth knowing was knowledge that could be applied. He was not concerned about what knowledge is, but rather he wanted to find knowledge that could be applied in every day life. The history of knowledge was unimportant. The only thing that was important was knowledge, ideas, which work to meet problems and solve them. Mills logic theory was based on the laws of association. He wanted to discover how one goes from unknowing to knowing by the process of inferences. This became his theory of induction. One draws conclusions, from experiences. When he goes beyond this to generalizations, he is acting upon the belief that nature is uniform. Man had the right to act so. Our ideas, result from expe...
