Test 1 Flashcards
Of what kind of induction do the sciences stand in need?
Analyze experience and take it to pieces and by due process of exclusion and rejection lead to an inevitable conclusion
What is the office of sense?
The only judge (discovery) of experiment which itself is the judge of the thing
What supposition might make me doubt my particular sense experiences?
There is an evil demon who is capable of deceiving us, giving reason to doubt the totality of what my senses tell me
What supposition might make me doubt that I have a body?
That I exists insofar as I am thinking, I have knowledge of my existence only as a thinking thing
What one proposition is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me?
I am, I exist
What then am I?
A thing that thinks, I am a mind or intelligence
What do I know more certainly than I know wax?
Our mind, faculty of judgment
What three sorts of ideas are there?
Innate – Born in me
Adventitious – From outside
Invented – Composed by me
Descartes sets out to discover if any ideas by being in the self-guarantee that what they represent exists outside the self. Which idea does? Of the three sorts of ideas (question 1), which kind is this idea?
The idea of God, Innate
How will a knowledge of God provide an escape from skepticism?
God does not deceive, allowing us to be sure that we are not deceived when we perceive thing clearly and distinctly
How is error possible?
When jumping to conclusions without understanding having resolved the issue
Which ideas are the only ones that completely convince me?
God is perfect, perceived clearly and distinctly
Are these conceptions necessarily true? Why?
No, but clearly obvious to everyone, other for those who look closer
There is nothing nature teaches me more vividly than what?
I have a body which feels pain, hunger
How is man like a clock?
Even without a mind the body would still function the same
