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BYU Philosophy 202 All Study Questions Of what kind of induction do the sciences stand in need? - ✔✔A form on induction which shall analyse experience and take it to pieces, and by a due process of exclusion and rejection lead to an inevitable conclusion. i.e. Scientific Method (Bacon) What is the office of sense - ✔✔Only to judge of the experiment. "I contrive that the office of the sense shall be only to judge of the experiment, and that experiment itself shall judge of the thing." (Bacon) What supposition might make me doubt my particular sense experiences? - ✔✔From time to time, my senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once. (Descartes) What supposition might make me doubt that I have a body? - ✔✔Dreaming (Descartes) What one proposition is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me? - ✔✔That "I" exist. (Descartes) What then am I? - ✔✔A thing that thinks. (Descartes) What do I know more certainly than I know wax? - ✔✔I know myself (I exist because I think: "Cogito ergo sum," I think, therefore I exist.) (Descartes) What three sorts of ideas are there? - ✔✔-Innate ideas (born in me) -Adventitious ideas (from outside) -Invented ideas (composed by me) (Descartes) Descartes sets out to discover if any ideas by being in the self guarantee that what they represent exists outside the self. Which idea does? Of the three sorts of ideas (question 1), which kind is this idea? - ✔✔The idea of God exists outside of himself. This idea is an innate idea. "For I did not acquire it from the senses... And it was not invented by me either... the only remaining alternative is that it is innate in me, just as the idea of myself is innate in me." (Descartes) How will a knowledge of God provide an escape from skepticism? - ✔✔By acknowledging God, in whom all the treasures of wisdom and sciences lie hidden, I think I can see a way forward to the knowledge of other things. I recognize that it is impossible that God should ever deceive me. Next, I know by experience that there is in me a faculty of judgment which, like everything else which is in me, I certainly received from God. (Descartes) How is error possible? - ✔✔"I commit errors when I jump to conclusions without my understanding having resolved the issue." (Descartes) Which ideas are the only ones that completely convince me? - ✔✔Things we perceive clearly and distinctly (Descartes) Which ideas are the only ones that completely convince me? - ✔✔Things we perceive clearly and distinctly (Descartes) Are these conceptions necessarily true? Why? - ✔✔Yes, because God is not a deceiver There is nothing nature teaches me more vividly than what? - ✔✔That I have a body (Descartes) How is man like a clock? - ✔✔The body is a machine arranged by God to function properly (Descartes) Are there innate principles in the mind? - ✔✔No there are not (Locke) What is the source of all ideas? - ✔✔Experience (Locke)

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