PHL-200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Lucretius, Monism, Occasionalism
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Intentional objects & contents ( propositional semantic , and thus can be, say, correct, justi ed, reasonable rational or not: psychological explanations and predictions as a. ) All spirits and all bodies are separate substances. Cartesian substance dualism: mind: the self, the i that thinks. The subject of thinking: body, occasionalism , arguments for dualism, knowledge of one"s own existence, minds are not extended. P1: if x is a (physical) body, then x is extended. P2: if x is extended, then x has a determinate size, shape, location, motion . P3: if x has size, then x is divisible into voluminous parts. P4: but the mind is not divisible into voluminous parts. P5: thus, the mind has no size, shape . C: thus, the mind is not a body. A distinct substance from the body: bodies cant think. P1: mental states cause physical states and physical states cause mental states. P2: only physical states can cause physical states.
