PHILOS 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Pythagorean Theorem
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Material objects: the meditator first investigates the ideas of material things that exist in her thought to see which ideas are distinct and which confused, meditator can distinctly imagine extension, size, shape, position, and local motion. These (cid:395)ualities a(cid:396)e all a pa(cid:396)t of so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g philosophe(cid:396)s (cid:272)all (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:374)ti(cid:374)uous(cid:863: there are abstract geometrical objects which do not exist in the material world, do not depend on the mind, yet cannot be said to be nothing. There are no triangles in the world but they have some kind of being. Even if no triangle has ever existed outside the mind of the meditator, triangles still have a determinate essence which is independent of the. The meditator did not come to know the nature of triangles through senses. Meditator can think of shapes that she has never seen and derive their properties as clearly and distinctly as he does with the triangle.
