PHL105Y5 Lecture 7: 3. Descates' Cogito
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Descartes" argument for the reality of external material things: my faculty of perception is passive, if my faculty of perception is passive, then something other than myself must produce in me the ideas i have of sensible things. Therefore: something other than myself produces in me the ideas i have of sensible things. (mp, 1 and. 2: if something other than myself produce in me the ideas i have of sensible things, then either the capacity to produce those ideas resides in corporeal things or it resides in god. 8 god does not produce those ideas in us. (mp, 7 and 8)
