PHIL 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Res Extensa, Speedstep, Evil Demon

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1301
• Professor: karinavold

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Next week read: meditation vi, passions of the soul, princess elisabeth correspondence w. You know that you are in class right now only if you know that you are not being deceived by an evil demon. You do not know that you are not being deceived by an evil demon. Therefore, you do not know that you are in class right now. Meditation ii: concerning the nature of the human mind, and that it is more easily known than the body. Descartes manages to find one thing that is certain and that he cannot doubt. If he has no senses and no body, there must be something else that exists that is doing the perceiving: co(cid:374)(cid:272)ludes (cid:862)i thi(cid:374)k therefore i a(cid:373)(cid:863) Ho(cid:449) (cid:272)ould i (cid:272)ould (cid:271)e de(cid:272)ei(cid:448)ed if i do(cid:374)(cid:859)t e(cid:454)ist: p1: if i am doubting, then i exist, p2: i am doubting, c: therefore, i exist (i am)