Definitions

Question 1

Intuition

Answer 1

A kind of mental seeing by which rational truths can be recognised. for Descartes, the mind deploys the faculty of intuition when it sees by the ‘light of reason’ that 2 = 2 or a sphere is one surface, becauese it only required one mental step to compehend.

Question 2

Deduction

Answer 2

It is a chain of intuitions. It is the realisation and comprehension of different concepts through the ‘light of reason’. However, it’s only difference with intuition is that it is ‘multiple intuits’ such as Pythagoras’ theorum.

Question 3

What is a clear and distinct idea?

Answer 3

It is a type of recognition of idea which deems the idea intuitively correct or understandable, because it is both bright and rpesent in the mind, whilst also being distinct from other ideas.

Question 4

What is ‘the cogito’?

Answer 4

Descartes’ argument for the existence of himself. In Latin, the full phrase is ‘ Cogito Ergo sum,’ and in English, this means, ‘ I think, therefore I am,’

Question 5

Trademark argument

Answer 5

The argument for the existence of God by Descartes, in which he likens the idea of an imprinted mark of the tradesman on a product to the imprinted idea of God in humans.

Question 6

Deductive argument

Answer 6

An argument where you must accept the conclusion, if you accept the premises, because they logically follow from each other, and to disagree with the conclusion after agreeing with the premises would be a contradiction.