PHIL 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cosmological Argument
17 Feb 2017
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He knows: he exist, he is a thinking thing, it seems to me that . Descartes is a rationalist: all knowledge is gained by the mind. The other though it a empiricists: al knowledge depends on the senses. When he thinks of the wax he removes the accidental properties: a property that a thing could be without, left with the essential property. A property an object could not lack. Anything i clearly and distinctly judge to be true is true. 3 sources of ideas: innate, self invented, externally caused. Representative/objective reality vs. intrinsic/formal reality: rep. Nite substance: descartes mind, unicorns, chalk. Descartes cosmological argument: i have an idea of god, every idea must have a cause, my idea of god must have a cause, all causes must have at much j triassic reality their effects have representative reality. !2: if (5), then god is the only possible thing with enough intrinsic reality to be the.
