PHLA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Dream Argument, Cogito Ergo Sum, Other Minds
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Abstract properties: colour, extension, place, shape, quantity, time. But is it against nature (check slides)) Everything: why does descartes need the dream argument to show that he cannot (check slidess) I have already denies that i had senses and body . I myself, am i not at least something? . Then i without doubt i exits . Cogito ergo sum - principles of philosophy. I thought i was a body, but now i realize i am a soul. If i cease to think then, i should likewise cease altogether to exist. A soul is a thing that: thinks, understands/conceives, denies, refuses, feels, doubts, affirms, wills, imagines. Nevertheless it still seems to me that corporal things Which are tested by the sense s are much more distinctly knowns that our obscure part of me which does not come under the imagination . Basic physical properties that we perceive with our senses. Remark on its sweet taste, colour, sound, etc.
