01:730:103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Underdetermination
20 Feb 2018
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Descartes switches from considering the hypothesis that he might be dreaming to considering the hypothesis that a malicious demon is deceiving him because he wants to address the point that you cannot dismiss that this is not true. There is no way to decipher that this is not what is going on when you are present or even mentally dreaming: descartes has not drawn any definitive conclusions, but he has made some tentative conclusions. Is one of these that he doesn"t know he has hands? your body is is actually yours. This concept connects to not knowing if you have hands. One of these conclusions relates to the concept of mind and whether what you think. According to hume, our imagination explains why we believe in the continued and. The philosophical system that hume refers to in this quote is an individual"s reflection in distinct existence of the objects that are present to our senses.
