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2025-1 Descartes 1. Cavendish allows that there exists conscious mentality, but she argues that much of our conscious intelligent thinking would not take place without unconscious "fairies" that "set" our conscious thoughts "in order." Explain her argument and illustrate it with an example.Strawson and Cavendish both think that there are a lot of familiar instances of mentality that are not cons..

2025-1 Descartes 1. Descartes argues that bodies do not have features like color, taste, sound, scent. What is his argument? What is the external world like, for Descartes, if bodies in fact exist? How does Descartes' view represent a dramatic turn in the history of science?He argues that the most basic features of body are size, shape, and extension. That is to say – color, taste, sound, smell,..

1. Descartes argues that thinking cannot arise or emerge from body. How does this argument go? How does the argument rely on the conception of thinking that is advanced in the Second Meditation?Descartes defends the view that minds and bodies are different kinds of stuff. This view is often called – mind-body dualism.He uses the Second Meditation to argue that at the most basic level the nature ..

5. At the start of the Fourth Meditation Descartes makes the assumption that a perfect being would not create being that err. But he is not entitled to that assumption. Why not? Why then might he be making it?By using the argument from objective reality, Descartes reaches the conclusion that God exists and that God is omniscient, omnipotent, eternal, immutable, and in a nutshell – supremely perf..

2025-1 Descartes 1. David Lewis defends the view that in addition to actualities, there are possibilities. What is his argument for this view? What does Lewis take a possibility to be? What is on potential problem for Lewis's view?David Lewis argues that we make true claims about possibilities – for example, it is true that it could be raining right now even if it is not; it is true that it is p..