PHIL 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cogito Ergo Sum, Ant-Zen, Cosmological Argument
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On sakai: descartes" meditations what you need to know - good review but need to be expanded on. Lunatic hypothesis, dismiss, why, assess reason (impossible to assess. Dream hypothesis (no criterion) reason if you don"t have reason to start: complex to simple universal things (eg. 2+2=4, god and the question of the origin of human nature doubt will always be possible. Never talk of existence of bodies, if they exist they are seen as extentions. Mind better known then body because the only way to know body is through the mind. The 3rd meditation - 25% of the text. The existence of god, degree of reality and dependency. Accidental modes (come and go not essential to mind) Highest possible reality is god at 100% Dependency relationship so mind is 75%, thinking 50% and thoughts at 25% (and so on across the chart)
