HPS100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mechanical Explanations Of Gravitation, Hylomorphism
4 Nov 2016
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In 16th and 17th century many theories, until late 17th accepted theory is the aristotelian world view. Cartesian came accepted end up 17th century. (descartes) Accepted for short period of ti(cid:373)e 40 years" (cid:374)ature philosophy physics, (cid:373)echa(cid:374)istic physiology, mechanistic cosmology, hypothetico deductive method. Erase, remove everything you thought was true doubt everything, erasing all the knowledge. But when i doubt everything one thing is certain, is the fact that i doubt, you cannot doubt without doubting, you also realize you think. So is the existence of the supremely perfect being is god. Thus everything that i perceive clearly must be true. Gods benevolence: perfect being, clear distinct ideas are true, i perceive clearly of the existent of mind independent material world. Mind is thought the principal attribute of mind is thought. Matter is extension and mind is thought. Dualism: there are 2 substances extended (matter) and thinking (mind) Mechanism: material objects are composed of bits of interacting matter replace hylomorphism.
