PSYC 3125 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Analytic Geometry, Deductive Reasoning, Pineal Gland
23 Feb 2019
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1615 in st germain france, lived by statues that later he used to explain his theory that statues are simplified but accurate models of the way living bodies sense, react to and move about in their environment. First to suggest fully mechanistic explanations for the traditional functions of the. The traditional view was that living things sensed reacted and moved because they had sensitive souls now the psychic functions themselves became things to be explained in terms of more fundamental mechanistic processes. Descartes set an important limit to this kind of explanation releasing from it the highest functions of the aristotelian rational soul. Moved to southern germany on the journey had two major insights. He still doubted if mathematical certainty can be found any other areas. He planned to use doubt to arrive at foundational concept that like geometrical axioms would be the starting point for deductive reasoning in all sorts of non-material fields.
