HUMA 1160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Deductive Reasoning, Main Source

• School: York University
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUMA 1160
• Professor: Stanley Tweyman

Document Summary

Examine one attempt to explain the principle differences between descarted meditations and principles of philosophy. The main source for understanding between analysis and synthesis is a passage at the end of replies to objections ii. In replies to objections ii descartes is asked to prove the exsistence of god using geometric form. 2 methods) the order and the method of proof. The order consists of those things first that should be known without the aid of what comes subsequently and then arranging all other methods so that their proof involves solely on what proceeds them. The method of proof is two fold one being analytic and the other being synthetic. The order is the arrangement of materials in such a way that which is presented earlier can be known without having to appeal to that which follows. Analysis and synthesis are introduced when descartes attempts to distinguish between two different kinds of method of proof that one can follow.