clear and distinct ideasideasArnauldIt is generally assumed that Descartes invokes "objective being in the intellect" in order to explain or describe an idea's status as being "of something." I argue that this assumption is mistaken. As emerges in his discussion of "materially false ideas" in...
Descartes' theory of clear and distinct ideas / 来自 ResearchGate 喜欢 0 阅读量: 20 作者: EJ Doyle 摘要: Thesis (M.A.)--Emory University, 1979. Director of this thesis, Dr. William F. Edwards, Dept. of Philosophy. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [106]-107). 被引量: 1 ...
After an expanded statement of themethod of doubt, he argued that eventhe most dire skepticismis overcome by the certainty ofone's own existenceasa thinking thing. From this beginning, he believed it possible to use ourclear and distinct ideasto demonstratethe existence of god, to establish the...
Descartes argued that he had a clear and distinct idea of God. 笛卡爾認爲他對上帝具有一個清楚,分明的觀念。 LASER-wikipedia2 Descartes is often regarded as the first thinker to emphasize the use of reason to develop the natural sciences. 笛卡尔通常被看作是第一个强调运用理性对于自然科学发...
“clear and distinct” knowledge of general metaphysical items, such as the nature of material substance and its modes, to derive particular conclusions on specific types of physical processes, for instance the laws of nature. This method of conducting science is quite contrary to the modern ...
THE predicates of "truth" and "falsehood" are generally ascribed solely to propositions (statements). Descartes, however, claims that all clear and distinct ideas are true1 while also claiming that truth and falsehood in the strict or formal sense pertain only to judgments, not ideas (AT 7: ...
The first and most important law is ôTo accept nothing as true that is not recognized by the reason as clear and distinctö (Discourse, I). The most important thing about this law is its focus on ideas and reasonùor the subjective impressions of the human intellect. It is impossible ...
Through this interpretative lens, the author reconsiders key Cartesian topics: the ideal inquirer, the role of clear and distinct ideas, the relation of these to the will, memory, the nature of intuition and deduction, the nature, content and elusiveness of 'I', and the tenability of the ...
- before our hearts to accept foreign ideas, God is in our hearts for a natural aptitude (natural inclination), the source of foreign ideas to the external material, while the latter is a clear and distinct ideas. God is the most successful dreams, he cannot deceive us, our clear and di...
(Page 71) Descartes believes that the light of nature reveals to us ideas that are clear and distinct; and that any idea that is clear and distinct “cannot in any way be doubtful.” (Page 72) Of any idea that he has, that of God’s existence, he feels, was revealed to him ...