Chapter 2 Flashcards
1
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Which two major insights did Descartes have while moving from Breda to Germany?
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- Analytic geometry
- The idea for a new method of obtaining true knowledge
2
Q
The most elementary and fundamental properties of physical phenomena
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Simple natures
3
Q
The space occupied by a physical body
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Extension
4
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The movement of an extended particle or body throughout space
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Motion
5
Q
Which two physical properaties qualified as simple natures according to Descartes?
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- Extension
- Motion
6
Q
Which three different kinds of materials in different kinds of motion filled the entire universe completely according to Descartes?
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- Fire/heat particles
- Air particles
- Earth particles
7
Q
Ideas that, independent as they are of specific sensory experience (but capable of being suggested or alluded to by experience), derive from the nature of the thinking soul itself
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Innate ideas
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