PHIL100J Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Perfect Machine, Undressed, Conceptus
24 Mar 2015
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And this point is likewise of the highest moment, for the mind is thus enabled easily to distinguish what pertains to itself, that is, to the intellectual nature, from what is to be referred to the body. Farther, it is necessary, for the same purpose, that we possess a distinct conception of corporeal nature, which is given partly in the second and partly in the fifth and sixth meditations. 1 we are necessitated to conclude, that all those objects which are clearly and distinctly conceived to be diverse substances, as mind and body, are substances really reciprocally distinct; and this inference is made in the sixth meditation. The absolute distinction of mind and body is, besides, confirmed in this second meditation, by showing that we cannot conceive body unless as divisible; while, on the other hand, mind cannot be conceived unless as indivisible. This is illustrated in the replies by the comparison of a highly perfect machine, the.
