PHL210Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ontological Argument, Innatism, Cosmological Argument
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Slides posted on website no need to copy it down. Review of last lecture: hyperbolical doubt, this is different from dreaming doubt and regular experience doubt. This calls into question every single thing i know. Descartes says we can be certain i am a thinking thing. Activity of doubting involves thinking so i must exist. What is the nature of the i: nothing to do with body or senses since those are called into question. The thing allowing me to think is the i. Goes from hyperbolical doubt to existence of a reason: reason as a thing/entity. Descartes: if i am a thinking thing what else can i be certain of. I can be certain of what things seem to me to be. Doesn"t follow that what seems to me to be even exists. We want to know how things are, not what they seem to me to be.
