PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Phantom Limb, Omnipotence, Ion
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29 Apr 2016
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Med 2 review: what can"t we doubt? our own existence. As soon as he tries to doubt it, he"s thinking; so he must exist. Cannot prove that i have a body; i am more base than that. A) that which makes something what it is, is a property or relation that does not change; and. B) to have knowledge of what something is, involves grasping what doesn"t change in it. Conclusion: therefore, we cannot know what the wax is with just the senses. Three potential ways to come to know the wax: senses, imagination, reason/understanding. Don"t know it through senses, imagination, must come to know it through the faculty of understanding; process of deduction. Understanding; it"s like how babies don"t have the capacity to recognize that a toy is still there if it"s hidden, but we understand where it went and that when it is shown again, you know it"s the same object.