PHIL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cosmological Argument, Materialism, Behaviorism
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By end of second meditation descartes comes to reason that: He can be sure that things seem to be. He can be sure of the mental contents of his mind. He can be sure that he is a being that is capable of mental acts. If there are external objects they would have to be of primary qualities not secondary qualities. Objects in the external world can only be described in terms of extension, number, location not taste, color, smell, feel, etc. Secondary are in us not of the object. He has something in his mind that is an infinite substance (limitless in every way) It is too great/perfect and too far beyond his understanding for him to have produced it. Therefore it must have proceeded from something that has an equal amount of power, perfection, and infinity. Whatever i clearly and distinctly perceive must be true.
