PHIL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Theism, Agnosticism, Omnibenevolence
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Pg 21-22: his objective is to show that he is more certain about his mind than he is about physical objects. As a rationalist, he is saying that we have access to really solid knowledge hand upon reason as opposed to the senses. What does the wax example demonstrate: he knows more about his mind than he does about physical objects. What are the steps of the wax example: as the wax is heated and melts each of its sensory attributes or properties changes. If we only had our senses experiences of the wax, we would think that the wax in its original form was a different thing to the melted wax: thus, the se(cid:374)ses do(cid:374)"t e(cid:374)a(cid:271)le us to k(cid:374)o(cid:449) the (cid:449)a(cid:454) Define these terms (they are not in the meditations): atheism, theism, agnosticism: atheism- there is no g-d/gods, theism- there is a g-d/gods, agnosticism- not knowledge of whether g-d exists or not.
