PHL105Y5 Lecture : Winter Term Notes (70% Complete)
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Plato: we remember things that we don"t remember from this particular life. The mind and spirit have a material nature. Monism mind and body is the same physical type of thing. Dualism mind and body are two distinct things. The indiscernibility of identicals is made by descartes to disprove mononism. If two things are identical, they must have all the same properties. If m has a property that b lacks, then m is not b. I cannot doubt that i have a mind. (indubitable existence, cogito ergo sum) I can doubt that i have a body. The mind and the body are not identical. Body has properties of divisibility and extension (matter) The mind does not have the properties of divisibility or extension: the mind and body are not identical. Interactionism: mind and body interact with each other. Descartes says that the pineal gland is where mind and body comes together.
