1. How can I make sure that I am not dreaming right now? Well, according to Rene, “when I see where things come from and where and when they come to me, and when I can connect my perceptions of them with the whole of the rest of my life without a break, then I am quite certain that when I encounter these things I am not asleep but awake” (191).
2. Basically. According to Rene, “I am, then, in the strict sense only a thing that thinks; that is, I am a mind, or intelligence, or intellect, or reason…” (p. 181). He states it again as follows: “I am a thing that thinks: that is, a thing that doubts, affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is willing, is unwilling…” (p. 185).
3. Yes, in page 180, Rene, states “I must finally conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind.”
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Yes, “hence it is just as much of a contradiction to think of God (that is, a supremely perfect being) lacking existence (that is, lacking a perfection), as it is to think of a mountain without a valley” (189). He states that “I cannot think of God except as existing, just as I cannot think of a mountain without a valley.”
5. The body and the soul are different kinds of things, but they can affect each other according to Rene he says it this way “I and the body form a unit. If this were not so, I, who am nothing but a thinking thing, would not feel pain when the body was hurt, but would perceive the damage purely by the intellect, just as a sailor perceives by sight if anything in his ship is broken” (p.
2. Basically. According to Rene, “I am, then, in the strict sense only a thing that thinks; that is, I am a mind, or intelligence, or intellect, or reason…” (p. 181). He states it again as follows: “I am a thing that thinks: that is, a thing that doubts, affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is willing, is unwilling…” (p. 185).
3. Yes, in page 180, Rene, states “I must finally conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind.”
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Yes, “hence it is just as much of a contradiction to think of God (that is, a supremely perfect being) lacking existence (that is, lacking a perfection), as it is to think of a mountain without a valley” (189). He states that “I cannot think of God except as existing, just as I cannot think of a mountain without a valley.”
5. The body and the soul are different kinds of things, but they can affect each other according to Rene he says it this way “I and the body form a unit. If this were not so, I, who am nothing but a thinking thing, would not feel pain when the body was hurt, but would perceive the damage purely by the intellect, just as a sailor perceives by sight if anything in his ship is broken” (p.