IB Philosophy Core: Descartes Meditation 6
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- Created on: 28-04-13 10:33
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- Sixth Meditation
- Probability argument
- Imagination
- seeing an image before the mind's eye. The application of cognitive faculty to a body which is present
- Imagining a triangle I see three sides before the mind's eye
- Attributed to the body
- He has a clear and distinct idea of physical properties having existence
- This is through imagination related to corporal objects, so the external world is likely to exist
- Since God is good he would not deceive him of this
- Needs a stimulus
- Intellection
- there is no image, insted it is related to essense
- Intellect about a chilagon
- To prove external world
- res extensa
- Imagination
- Dualism
- Mind
- Non-extendable
- Indivisible
- Body
- Extendable
- Divisible
- Mind and body are separate and mind can exist without body
- They interact through the pillory gland
- Mind
- Probability argument
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