PHILOS 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: East Los Angeles College, Scholasticism, Ontological Argument
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The trademark argument from meditation 3- comes from a term used in the next to last paragraph of meditation 3- makers mark of god . Unity of mind and body for descartes- we can only in withdraw from the sense epistemic. Imagination and sensation are modes of thinking. What follows from the cogito is so clear and distinct a perception- so anything that you can clearly distinguish with certainty i should be able to claim the same. The issue is even with a clear and distinct perception, in entertaining the truths of reason there should be a clear and distinct perception. However it is metaphysically possible that god could have created a world that seemingly certain things are false. This issue leads to that requires the trademark. Formal reality- comes close to objective reality of today. Objective reality- comes rather close to subjective reality of today. The basic logical movement of the argument.
