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Substance dualism
The idea that two elements (mind and body) are completely different .
Eg - Descartes , Gilbert Ryle
Descartes
•often questioned whether the material body and his mind were an illusion - or whether there is knowledge so certain known may doubt it .
COGITO - ‘I think therefore I am’- suggesting logical implication
“There is a great difference between a mind and a body because the body is by nature divisible but the mind is not”
Descartes adapted a system of doubt to identify what is certain - therefore suggesting that the mind and body can not interconnect because the mind is simply spiritual whereas our bodies are non- spiritual and material.
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