PHILOS 2F03 Quiz: Thomas Hobbes.docx
12 Dec 2014
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Thomas hobbes (leviathan: materialsim: everything has a material explanation, says people who talk about immaterial substance is a contradiction, to speak this way is to stretch the limits of language, senseless speech pg. The other is, when imaging anything whatsoever, we seek all the possible effects that can by it be produced; that is to say, we imagine that we can do with it when we have it. Imagination is a decaying sense: first thought gets smaller as future thoughts are presented: dreaming: thoughts without interference from the external world, source: when you are dreaming vs when you are awake (pg. Anger causes : continuity: descartes and hobbes, they both argue against continuity in dreams, pg. 60 i do not often think of the same persons places : chapter 3, 2 different senses of mental discourse: unregulated: (pg. The purpose of general speech is to transfer our train of thoughts into train of words.
