PHIL 1F90 Lecture 7: PHIL 1F90- Lecture 7 Semester 2
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Sensible things himself god to remain with intelligible things: ideas that he has in his mind. His ideas are more clearly and distinctly perceived. Nothing is truer than descartes idea of god. Takes a transcendental route: first: truth about god, second: truth about objects in the external world. Rule of evidence: whatever is clearly and distinctly perceived must be true, nothing that is clearly and distinctly perceived is false. He has imperfections but only because he lacks certain things. Error does not arise from anything d has from god. He makes mistakes because of what he doesn"t have. But god could have made d to never make a mistake. Why has god made d make mistakes. D there are two joint causes for his error therefore each cause taken by itself cannot account for d making mistakes. There needs to be two of them, they need to be used together: understanding, will.
