• the infinite being 
• simple minds 
• something else 
• ideas 
• material bodies 
• epiphenomenon 
• elizabeth is an epiphenomenon she doesn't play a role in the story 
• minds can clearly cause themselves to do things 
• how do bodies by producing ideas cause minds 
• how does causality even occur? 
• what is causality ? 
• spinosa ends up saying that part of the issue is in the definition of the word substance 
• in decartes principles he defines it a something completely independent of anything else 
• god is constantly recreating the universe 
• the issue becomes how many substances are there 
• the only real substance is god 
• spinosa takes decartes picture and the only substance is god 
• god and matter are bits of the same thing 
• for spinoza when i kick thing and it makes it the same as the sound it makes 
• there is no time and space they are just causality 
• this is the best of all possible worlds 
• why bother with material objects they are doing nothing in the story 
• for barkley all there are are ideas which are the visual and sensory feel 
• if it is a congry of sensations there is nothing being sensed therefore it doesn't exist 
• the ordinary person doesn't have a concept of material bodies 
• john locke - set the british ball rolling by being an imericist  
• impiricist- someone who things all of our knowledge comes from our experience 
• hume is coming from the ideas of barcly and locke mainly 
• hume thinks Barcly is crazy but right 
• hume says we clearly think there are material objects 
• we think that objects continue to exist when they aren't looked at 
• we think that the tree doesn't depend on me preconceiving it now and is independent of me 
• deosexmachina - don't kill your son and make him a priest ( god from the machine) ie something being brought in to save the day 
• what makes us think objects are continuous? 
• the vulgar - the common person 
• hume and barcly thing they are defending the view of the vulgar 
• humes point is tha we think things exist independent without humans 
• we have a prepensity that objects continue to exist when we don't look at them 
• material bodies cause our ideas 
• once you recognize that there are material objects becasue of a propensity to believe there are material objects 
• what is it to be a skeptic? 
• to be a skeptic means to say I don't know 
• hume is going to look at 2 questions 
• do my ideas, the object i see when i am no perceiving them ? 
• do objects continue to exist when i am not seeing them ? 
• are objects independent of being percieved? 
• substance 
• sensation 
• reason 
• imagination 
• there is nothing that the sense faculty says that 2 sensations are the same thing 
• there is nothing in your sensory faculty that doesn't come from sensation 
• given that everyone's ideas different the only thing you can do is that there is a similarity between idea A and idea B but it doesn't tell you they are the same object just similar ideas 
• there is a relation between your first idea and your second idea 
• certain things are followed by certain other things 
• the only thing that can be causing this is a strong disposition from our memory that ther are  these types of things but there is no reason to think that 
• what you see when someone kicks the table is sensory and auditory 
• you believe that by kicking the table he caused the noise but there is nothing in your sensation that has cause 
• we believe the noise happens because the one sort of event is commonly followed by the other 
• there is no rational cause of induction