Introduction, Mediation 1 and 2 Meditation 3 Meditations 4 & 5 Meditation 6 Miscellaneous
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What is the lunatic hypothesis?
This first hypothesis was replaced by the Dreamer's hypothesis.
200
What is an idea?
In its strict sense, this is an image of things.
200
What is the way to avoid error?
Refraining from making a judgement about things that are obscure and confused is this.
200
What is sensory experience?
The existence of bodies is hypothesized by Descartes because this thing is not necessary to the pure understanding.
200
What is Res Cogitons or Thinking thing?
A thing that doubts, understands, affirms, denies, wills, does not will, and which also imagines and senses. (Latin and English)
400
What is the evil genius?
This hypothesis balances the scales to keep Descartes from slipping back into his old thinking habits.
400
What is the causal principle?
This principle is used to prove God's existence.
400
What is the truth rule?
Following this means Descartes must separate the things he understands perfectly from those he understands in an obscure and confused way.
400
What is sensation?
Descartes argues from this kind of thinking that physical things exist.
400
What is in judgements?
This is the only place that falsity can reside.
600
What is certitude?
This thing is the criterion that will be Descartes' Archimedian point.
600
What is the natural light or reason?
This thing shows me that because I doubt, I exist and suchlike.
600
What is a horse with or without wings?
I am not free to think of God without existence in the same way that I can imagine this.
600
What are imagining and sensing?
These two faculties cannot be understood without myself as the intellectual substance in which they inhere because they are like modes of understanding.
600
What is intentional/objective reality?
This term refers to the metaphysical position of ideas as they relate to one another substantively.
800
What is the wax example?
This example demonstrates that the mind is known better than the body.
800
What is formal reality?
.All ideas have this equalizing nature which is analogous to paint and canvas.
800
What is God?
If I wasn't distracted by prejudice and images of things, I would know this prior to everything else.
800
What is like a pilot to a ship or a ghost in a machine?
I am connected to my body in such an intimate way as to be unified with it. My relationship to my body is not like this.
800
What is sensory perception?
These were given by nature to signify to the mind that which is beneficial or harmful for the body, but if I mistake them as guarantees of the essences of things, I run into problems.
What is the defective design hypothesis?
This is the hypothesis in which Descartes suggests that it may be possible that God causes him to be mistaken, not unlike a faulty calculator.
What is the Cartesian circle?
This problem keeps going round in Descartes' Meditations
What is that clearly and distinctly perceived things are true?
If God exists and I understand that everything depends on Him and He is not a deceiver, I can conclude this.
What is nature?
Descartes understands this to be God himself or a coordinated system of created things established by God.
What are the understanding and the imagination?
When the mind turns inward it employs this, but when it turns outward, it uses this.






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