CAS PH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Omnipotence
6 Apr 2016
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Try to prove that god exists and is good. To be certain of anything else, such as other thinking beings and math. If god is good, i can trust my senses and my judgments. Ideas cannot be false, only judgments can be true or false. Error: i assume that ideas in my head resemble things out in the world. Three kinds of ideas: acquired (trees can be green, my shoes are grey, produce by me (something imaginary unicorn, chimera, etc. ) Two ideas of the sun: one i take in" with my senses, one i derive from astronomical reasoning. The idea that must have in their head of what the sun in is very different from what the sun actually is. Formal reality: refers to things in the world. There are different levels of presentational and formal realities. Descartes: idea"s cause cannot be less real than the idea means can"t jump a reality level and get something form nothing.
