K&D Flashcards
(35 cards)
Meditation 1 - Method of Doubt
Para 1: The aims of med. 1 and how he plans to achieve these.
Para 2: Describe the Senses
“It is prudent never to trust those who have deceived us even once.”
Para 3: Dream Argument
“Perhaps I do not even have such hands or such a body at all.”
Para 4: God
“How do I know that God has not brought it about that I too go wrong every time I add two and three or count the sides of a square,”
Para 5: The Evil Demon
‘Some malicious demon… has employed all his energies in order to deceive me.’
med 1 senses quote
“It is prudent never to trust those who have deceived us even once.”
med 1 dream quote
“Perhaps I do not even have such hands or such a body at all.”
med 1 demon quote
‘Some malicious demon… has employed all his energies in order to deceive me.’
med 1 god quote
“how do I know that God has not brought it about that I too go wrong every time I add two and three or count the sides of a square,”
med 1 criticisms
- foundationalist
- disregards senses too quickly
- full effort?
- dreaming illogical
med 1 good
- rigorous
Meditation 2 - The Cogito
Para 1: Discussion of the Whirlpool of Doubt and the Archimedean Point. “..one firm and immovable point in order to shift the entire earth…”
Para 2: How does Descartes arrive at the cogito. Discuss how he reworded the cogito.
Para 3: Why the Cogito is undeniable.
med 2 Archimedean point quote
”..one firm and immovable point in order to shift the entire earth…”
med 2 crit
- evil demon -> bad logic
- define “I” and “am”
- Hume argues there is no idea of the self, just a collective idea
Meditation 3 - Of God; that He Exists
Para 1: Explain clear and distinct perceptions.
Para 2: Explain natural impulse, natural light and the degrees of reality.
“Among these ideas, some appear to me to be innate, others adventitious, and others to be factitious.”
Para 3: Causal adequacy principle (Stone and heat) “what is cannot be produced by what is not.”
Para 4: Trademark argument and the idea of perfection.
“I could not possibly… have in mind the idea of God, if God did not in reality exist!”
med 3 natural impulse, light and degrees of reality quote
“Among these ideas, some appear to me to be innate, others adventitious, and others to be factitious.”
med 3 causal adequacy principles quote
“what is cannot be produced by what is not.”
med 3 tradmark argument
“I could not possibly… have in mind the idea of God, if God did not in reality exist!”
med 3 criticisms
- reliance on god breaks scepticism
- clear and distinct
- non-believers
- random terminology, lack of structure
- cake
- circular reasoning
Hume - Ideas & Impressions
Para 1: Impressions vs ideas.
Para 2: Complex vs simple ideas.
Para 3: Copy principle.
Para 4: Shade of blue.
Hume - cause and effect
Para 1: Fork.
Para 2: Cause and effect.
Para 3: Exploding balls (boom)
Para 4: Induction.
Hume ideas criticisms
- drunk, PTSD
- the missing shade of blue
- ## blind people with ideas of colour
Hume impressions and ideas quote
“there is a considerable difference between …when a man feels the pain of excessive heat …and to when he afterwards recalls it to his memory”
Hume complex vs simple ideas quote
virtuous horse or golden mountain
Hume copy principle quote
“all this creative power of the mind amounts merely to the ability to combine, transpose, enlarge, or shrink the materials that the senses and experience provide us with”
Hume impressions and ideas things to note
God & no corresponding impressions without ideas
Hume impressions and ideas positives
- strong logic
- not easily countered examples
- saying it only applies to people with a healthy mind
- accounts for the imagination
Hume - Cause & Effect
Para 1: Fork (relations of ideas and matters of fact)
Para 2: Cause and effect.
Para 3: Exploding balls (boom)
Para 4: Induction.
