PHIL-105 FA2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cogito Ergo Sum

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Descartes decides that he is going to call absolutely everything into question. The evil demon distorts everything and calls everything into question around him. Cogito means i think and cogito ergo sum means i think therefore i am: doubt, the cogito (i think) (the fact of my existence, what am i? (the nature of my existence, thinking substance. Imagines: seeking, extended substance, modes (we know this and 5 exist as ideas) Less degree of reality (modes) to a higher degree of reality (substance) Casual principle - something can"t come from nothing, everything has to have a case, something must have as much reality as the case (something more real can"t come from something less real) Formal reality - the amount of reality that something actually has. Objective reality - the amount of reality that is represented in an idea. Less degree of reality to higher degree of reality to highest degree of reality.

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