Substance Dualism
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- Created on: 31-05-15 16:53
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- Substance Dualism
- Plato
- The soul, unlike the body can't be destroyed
- BC it doesn't have parts
- Change involves something coming about from the opposite.
- becoming alive = change from not being alive
- Alive = Soul joining the body T/F soul must've existed pre-life
- T/F soul = separate substance to the body
- Change involves something coming about from the opposite.
- becoming alive = change from not being alive
- Alive = Soul joining the body T/F soul must've existed pre-life
- T/F soul = separate substance to the body
- The soul, unlike the body can't be destroyed
- Descartes
- A/Divisibility
- The body is divisible into parts. The mind is not divisible into parts. T/F the mind and body must be logically distinct.
- Thought = the essential property of mind bc it has NO SPATIAL LOCATION
- However, this means that the mind is presupposed to exist b/c it has properties
- INCOHERENT b/c consciousness = mental state NOT a physical object
- If the mind is intimately connected to the brain there is a possibility IT COULD BE DIVISIBLE
- Thought = the essential property of mind bc it has NO SPATIAL LOCATION
- The body is divisible into parts. The mind is not divisible into parts. T/F the mind and body must be logically distinct.
- I can doubt that my body exists. I cannot doubt that I exist. T/F I am distinct from my body
- Descartes has not shown that his mind exists as a substance
- You can't legitimately infer, from the conception of a mind's existence, that the mind and body are different things
- EXEMPLIFY USING MASKED MAN FALLOCY
- A/Divisibility
- A substance is something which can exist independently of anything else
- Dualism states that there are 2 types of substance; MENTAL & PHYSICAL
- the idea that the mind and body are 2 DISTINCT LOGICAL SUBSTANCES
- Plato
- The body is doubtable through the POWERFUL DEMON analogy
- Your existence is undoubtable b/c doubting your existence is confirmation that you exist
- I can doubt that my body exists. I cannot doubt that I exist. T/F I am distinct from my body
- Descartes has not shown that his mind exists as a substance
- You can't legitimately infer, from the conception of a mind's existence, that the mind and body are different things
- EXEMPLIFY USING MASKED MAN FALLOCY
- I can doubt that my body exists. I cannot doubt that I exist. T/F I am distinct from my body
- Your existence is undoubtable b/c doubting your existence is confirmation that you exist
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