PHIL 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Blackboard, Deductive Reasoning
29 May 2016
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Descartes: you cant be mistaken about your own mind (introspection provides infallible access to what you believe and want) There is a blackboard up front (fails and can be mistaken) I believe there is a blackboard up front (descartes: you cant be mistaken about this) I want a piece of chocolate cake (descartes: you cant be mistaken about this) Behaviour a better guide to what one thinks/wants. Descartes on what passes m of d test. Important to be in first person (might be talking about the name) Design arguments start with observations and cant be used. God exists ad is no deceiver: hence, there is a blackboard up front. 2 and 3 will be problematic either or. How can descartes define clear and distinct so both premises 2 and 3 must be true. D"s response to scepticism: knowledge requires impossibility of error, i can prove to myself that i cant be mistaken about certain claims.
