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19 Cards in this Set
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innate ideas
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those i discover within myself
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adventitious ides
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those i get accidentally
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formal reality
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common to all existing things
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objective reality
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belongs to things which represent other things
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Descartes version of sceptical hypothesis
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how to eliminate false beliefs - scepticism
how to move true beliefs to knowledge - god |
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Meditation I
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how to recognize true beliefs
the sceptical hypthesis |
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Meditation II
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some beliefs cannot be false
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Meditation III
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proof of the existance of God
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Meditation IV (4)
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Why do we make mistakes?
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Meditation V (5)
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the essence of things
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Mediation VI (6)
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proof of dualism; the mind/body distinction
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mind-primary qualities
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inseperable qualities of external objects themselves
extension, shape, motion, mass |
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mind-secondary qualities
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primary qualities which can cause ideas
sights, sounds, smells, tastes, feels |
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examples of fifth truth rule
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color, extension, shape, quantity, magnitude, time
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cartesian circle
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we can only be sure of our clear and distinct perceptions if god exists
we can only know that god exists because we clearly and distinctly perceive the idea of god |
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the cogito
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i think therefore i am
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the archimedian point
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removing oneself from the object of study so that one can see it in relation to all other things yet remain independent of them
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scepticism
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the view that we do not and can not know anything
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the casual cosmological argument
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attempts to establish gods existence by showing that god must be the ultimate first cause of the universe
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