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what is sense deception? |
Descartes questions his senses but realizes senses are sturdy as long as they're not small or far away what |
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what is the dream argument? |
Dream images are drawn from waking images, can be confusing for senses because they are very realistic what |
med 1 |
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what is the deceptive God hypothesis? |
God clearly deceives which makes him believe he is evil |
med 1 |
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what is Archimedes influence? |
Archimedes could shift the earth given one immovable point so Descartes wants one absolute certainty as well |
med 2 |
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what is the cogito argument? |
I am, I exist he thinks therefore he knows he exists |
med 2 |
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what is the wax experiment argument? |
understands the processes of the wax changing by intellect alone |
med 2 |
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med 2 conclusion |
he knows he exists, he is a thinking thing, his mind is better known than his body and all clear distinctions come from intellect alone |
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what are the three sources for ideas? |
1)innate- internal 2)adventitious- coming from outside of us 3) invented by us |
med 3 |
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what is the cause of an idea? |
must be something with as much formal reality as the idea of objective realigy |
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what is the cause of an idea? |
must be something with as much formal reality as the idea of objective reality |
med 3 |
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gods existence med 3 |
God is far more objective reality than formal reality which means he is the cause of his idea and must therefore necessarily exist -innate idea -God does not deceive |
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