PHIL 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Omnipotence

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2010
• Professor: Christopher Lay

Document Summary

First dialogue: experience has 2 types, sensation. 2. re ection: qualities > perceptions based off perceiver, primary qualities: Absolute extension > (philonious"s response) all existing things are particular things, not general ideas, so we could never know absolute through senses . we cannot conceive of absolute apart from sensible. Ex. what looks big to a bug, may appear small to a person: secondary qualities: Just in perceiver: perception as a two-fold, suppose perception involves 2 parts, one part is active (& involves the mind an act of the mind, one part is passive (not an act of the mind) *therefore, perception cannot be twofold in the way described . when perception acts as passive > we are affected by perceptions, but can"t change them. Real objects > collection of sensations; vivid; come involuntary: existence of god: God exists because all sensible things must be perceived by him version 1: there is a sensible world.