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HPS100 Lecture Seven
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- 1MetaphysicsDescartes
- 2In order to make sure I accept what is trueI have to start by doubting everything (me, my experience, my knowledge)
- 3When you doubt everything, one thing is for certainthe fact that I doubt
- 4You cannot see a mind that is notthinking
- 5Dualism =There are two substances (matter and mind)
- 6Aristotlea thing is characterized by its qualities, two substances are different
- 7Descartesthe artistoletians multiplied substances without reason
- 8Mechanismmaterial objects are composed of buts of interacting matter
- 9Hylomorphismevery compound can be analytically decomposed into its form and matter
- 10Descartes sayshat matter is extension and that the other forms are nonsense
- 11Descartes First Lawevery part of matter maintains its state unless a collision with another part changes the state
- 12Descartes Second Lawevery part of matter, regarded by itself, tends to continue moving only along straight lines
- 13PlenismThere can be no empty space
- 14HD method on experiments➢ No experiments method – if a theory relies on experiments, its unacceptable
- 15HD method on artificial and natural distinctionall things obey the same laws, no distinction
- 16HD Method on experimentswhen assessing a theory, it is acceptable to rely on the results of both observations and experiments
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