PHL210Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Innatism, Scholasticism
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Lecture 3 descartes meditations 3 and 4. September 29, 2015: on the basis of the argument in med. I can doubt the existe3nce of physical bodies but that doubt affirms the existence of the. Descartes hasn"t shown they can"t be: this could happen if god was a deceiver so he must show that god exists and that he is not a deceiver (meditations 3 and 4). I grasp something that is the subject of my thought. God: but they should come in opposite order: existence before knowledge, objective reality: the reality a thing has in the mind as the object of an idea (the thing represented in the idea). Idea depicted of the object; not the object as is. E. g. a religious person"s idea of god would have more objective reality than an atheist"s: formal reality: real or intrinsic reality; a thing in itself; the actual thing.
