Descartes thinks that he should reject only those opinions


1.Descartes thinks that he should reject only those opinions that he can show to be false.
2.descartes maintains that dream images are like painted images in so far as they are produced in the likeness of true things.
3.Descartes can destroy the opinions that he has formed as a result of what he has taken in through the senses because his senses have sometimes decieved him.
4.Descartes is able to doubt things like extension, quantitiy, and number because he might be dreaming.
5.The one thing Descartes knows for certain is that he is a rational animal.
6.The wax example proves that bodies are more clearly known than minds.
7.Descartes understands imaginantion to be the contemplation of the shape or image of a corporeal thing.
8.Descartes claims that theire is not any difference between himself and a stone in so far as they are both substances.
9.Descartes claims that the criterion for truth is clear and distince understanding.
10.In so far as all ideas are modes of thought, they are equal; but in so far one idea represents one thing and another idea represents something else. they are different.
11.According to descartes, substances and modes have the same amount of reality.
12.Descartes claims that all of his thoughts are ideas.
13.Innate ideas are those ideas that are caused by things outside us.
14.By infinite, Descartes means the negation of the finite.
15.Descartes understands that ideas are neither true nor false.
16.By substance, Descartes means a thing that in its own right has an aptitude for exsisting.
17.Descartes means by the light of nature that he is driven by a spontaneous impulse to believe a posistion.
18.Since it is impossible to understand complez geometrical forms without aid of the imagination, imagination is part of the essence of mind.
19.The essence of material objects is extension.
20.Gods esscence includes expierence.

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