PHIL 100W Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ontological Argument, Habituation, A Priori And A Posteriori

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 100W
• Professor: Dai Heide

Document Summary

Let us take, for example, this piece of wax. It has just been taken from the honeycomb; it has not yet quite lost the taste of honey; it retains some of the scent of the flowers from which it was gathered; its colour. Shape, and size are plain to see; it is hard, cold and can be handled without difficulty. If you rap it with your knuckle it makes a sound. In short, it has everything which appears necessary to enable a body to be known as distinctly as possible (20: this is as complete a description descartes can give of the wax. Descartes moves the wax toward the fire. All of the properties he has described change: all the properties descartes initially found in the wax have changed. Descartes" ontological argument for the existence of god. Descartes here gives a version of what is known as the ontological argument for the existence of god.