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why he is certain of the cogito he says. Descartes, God and the Eternal Truths such as the truths of mathematics or Euclidean geometry, no less than act of the divine will. Many have puzzled over quite how Descartes’ claims on this iss CLEAR FORM CLEAR FORM CLEAR FORM CLEAR FORM CLEAR FORM CLEAR FORM processed. Please do not email this form with your credit card information – fax or mail instead. PERSONAL INFORMATIONYour BCIT S CLEAR FORM CLEAR FORM CLEAR FORM CLEAR FORM CLEAR FORM CLEAR FORM 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 oone/North Shore Lions Club Bursary and The B.C. Lions Society fo  . Given a stream . , where . , count the number of distinct items (so we are in the cash register model). Example: 3 5 7 4 3 4 3 4 7 5 9. 5 distinct elements: 3 4 5 7 9 (we only want the count of distinct elements, and not the set of distinct elements). . Descartes - b.1596 d.1650. Not a skeptic – “there really is a world, that men have bodies, and the like (things which no one of sound mind has ever seriously doubted)”. Is he a dualist? . Most people would say so, because of his discussion the mind and the body, yet God is neither mind nor body, so Descartes is something more.. CLEAR HORIZONS CLEAR HORIZONS CLEAR HORIZONS CLEAR HORIZONS CLEAR HORIZONS Strengths. Weaknesses. p.129-131, . You have 3 minutes to read through the chart you made for homework. . Criticism 1: Is the Causal Principle true?. Without . using your notes, talk to the person next to you about how you would complete this piece of text: . Meditation One: Concerning Those Things Which Can Be Called Into Doubt. Section 18. Descartes realizes his opinions may be false.. He feels compelled to “raze” his prior knowledge to the ground and build it back up (Yoda-like).. CLEAR FORM CLEAR FORM CLEAR FORM CLEAR FORM CLEAR FORM CLEAR FORM 1) Save this PDF to your desktop, 2) Open with Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat, 3) Complete all required elds, 4) Save, 5) Close PDF Michael Lacewing. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. (c) Michael Lacewing. Substance dualism. Substance dualism. : there are two sorts of substance, mind (or soul) and matter. Minds. are distinct from bodies. Michael Lacewing. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. © Michael Lacewing . The origin of knowledge. Does all our knowledge come from experience, as empiricists claim?. Descartes thinks not. He uses deductive reasoning: if the premises and true, the conclusion must be true. Michael Lacewing. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. © Michael Lacewing. Descartes’ question. Cosmological arguments usually ask ‘why does anything exist’?. Descartes doubts the existence of everything, and offers his cosmological argument after showing only that he exists.. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. Substance and properties. A substance is an entity, a thing, that does not depend on another entity for its continued existence. . It has ‘ontological independence. Perceptual . Knowledge. The Goal. Descartes wanted certainty.. How can we know, for sure, that science is on a sure footing?. How do we guard against discovering, centuries from now, we were wrong about basic observations on which science is built?.