PHIL 2240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Otology, Mental Property
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Chapter 2: evaluating ontological theses (ontology = metaphysics) Ontologist answer the left over questions of science. There are three qualities that we want an otological theses to have: internally consistent. This comes from logic. i. e telling a lie, everything needs to be consistent or the story won"t add up: consistent with other sources of knowledge (sciences, everyday experiences/ common sense) Checking that your theses is consistent with other sources of knowledge can get messy because not all sciences agree with each other. Our own personal experiences may get in the way also: relative explanatory power. How many questions can this theses answer? a good ontological theses should be able to answer more than one question: reasons for thinking the mind is separate from the body. Descartes saw the mind as the self, whatever you view as the self was in-fact the mind. Reasons that the mind and body are not connected: ]=
