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Rational Reason to doubt our beliefs
-Sense Illusion
-Dream Argument
-Deceptive God Argument |
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| "I am, I exist" Epistemological Discovery |
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| Cosmological Argument for the existence of god |
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| Knowledge or beliefs obtained by rational thought without the sense |
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| beliefs obtained inconjunction with experience (mind + body) |
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God -infinite (not dependent for existence)
Angels -100,000
Humans -10,000
Animals 1,000
Plants 100
Inanimate objects -10
Ideas -1 |
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| Something has objective reality in virtue of representing something else. Descartes applies objective reality only to ideas and does not say whether other representational entities, such as paintings, have objective reality. The amount of objective reality an idea has is determined solely on the basis of the amount of formal reality contained in the thing being represented. An idea of God has infinite objective reality; an idea of your cousin, assuming you have one, has finite objective reality; and idea of red has modal objective reality. The concept of objective reality is crucial to Descartes' causal argument for the existence of God. |
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| the reality something has in virtue of existing. |
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| Our senses deceive us (mirage) how can we determine what is real from what is not. |
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| How can we differentiate a dream from reality |
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1 created by omnipotent god or somethingless
2 God>us for K so i may be decieved
3 If i was created by something less powerful than i am limited to its K |
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| All true beliefs ("I am, I exist") |
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| a systematic process of being skeptical about (or doubting) the truth of one's beliefs |
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| "If an idea exists, the cause of the idea must exist too, and the cause must have at least as much formal reality as the idea has objective reality." |
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