PHILO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Empirical Evidence
17 Sep 2020
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The meditator is entitled to consider a piece of wax in the last portion of the second meditation because she is bracketing the doubts of the first meditation. Order: properties, finite substance, infinite substance (god) [ trademark"] Ex: something is hot must be heated by something. (1) reality as measure of ontological independence. (2) ideas have different degrees of reality, just as things do. Being or existence, in both its formal and objective forms, is all or nothing: something has formal/objective being, or it does not; my computer has formal being, santa claus (sadly) does not. The things that exist (formally or objectively) are also ranked into different levels of reality. Roughly, reality is a measure of the amount of (in)dependence a thing has (see at vii 40, 44). She generalizes on the basis of her experience of gaining access to truths in the preceding meditation.
