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references c-d
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religion
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philosophy of mind
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vitalism, the soul
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skepticism about knowledge
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existence
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sense perception
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objects as a set of attributes
Topic:
metaphysics and epistemology
Topic:
infinity and infinitesimal
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psychology
Topic:
what is truth
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ethics
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philosophy of mathematics
Topic:
science as experiment
Topic:
consciousness

Reference

Descartes, R., Meditations on First Philosophy in which the existence of God and the distinction of the soul from the body are demonstrated, 1641. Google

Other Reference

translated by D.A. Cress, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing 1979. Numbers in parenthesis from the original Latin version republished in Adam and Tannery, vol. 7, 1965.

Quotations
1 ;;Quote: to convince unbelievers, need a philosophical proof of the existence of God and the nature of the soul
8 ;;Quote: the mind is distinct from the body because the body is always divisible but the mind is indivisible
13 ;;Quote: Descartes starts with a skeptical attitude; God is an evil genius that deceives us through our senses, like dreaming
17 ;;Quote: even though God deceives me, I must exist because I am aware of the possiblity of deception
18 ;;Quote: while senses may be false, thoughts must exist; so I am a thing that thinks, doubts, understands, imagines, senses
20 ;;Quote: even though we distinctly perceive bodies, they are changeable in all aspects except our perception of their existence; e.g., a piece of wax
21 ;;Quote: since things change, they are perceived by mind alone; self perception is the clearest of all
27 ;;Quote: the cause of an effect must have at least as much reality or perfection as the effect
30 ;;Quote: God exists because only an infinite, perfect being can be the ultimate cause of a thing that thinks and has the idea of God
33 ;;Quote: the ideas of God and oneself are innate
33 ;;Quote: if man is created in the image of God then can use the same facility for awareness of both
35 ;;Quote: can know things because a perfect God is not a deceiver; similarly, our willing and understanding is perfect when it comes from God
38 ;;Quote: errors occur because the will extends beyond the intellect and our understanding; also sin and deception
38 ;;Quote: everything that one clearly and distinctly perceives is necessarily true
45 ;;Quote: one can know certainly and fully countless things about God, intellectual matters, nature, and mathematics
45 ;;Quote: if material things are objects of pure mathematics, they must exist because mathematical objects are clearly perceived
49 ;;Quote: corporeal things exist because sensing is real, it happens against my will, and it can't be from a deceptive God
50 ;;Quote: although the senses can be confused, corporeal things contain what is clearly understand; at least as the objects of pure mathematics
50 ;;Quote: since God is not a deceiver, there must be a faculty for rectifying any falsity about the nature of particular things
50 ;;Quote: pain, hunger, etc. demonstrate that one's self and one's body are tightly joined into a single thing; not intellect in isolation
53 ;;Quote: mind different from body because the mind is always indivisible but a body is always divisible
54 ;;Quote: the senses can be deceived because the body effects the mind indirectly through other parts of the body
56 ;;Quote: the life of man is vulnerable to errors regarding particular things because of the need to get things done


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ThesaHelp: references c-d (337 items)
Topic: religion (50 items)
Topic: philosophy of mind (78 items)
Topic: vitalism, the soul (73 items)
Topic: skepticism about knowledge (34 items)
Topic: existence (29 items)
Topic: sense perception (55 items)
Topic: objects as a set of attributes (39 items)
Topic: metaphysics and epistemology (99 items)
Topic: infinity and infinitesimal (37 items)
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