I believe that Descartes argument for the existence of God makes logical sense and satisfies the need for his other argument that we need to know if anything is certain anymore because of the Evil Genius. ... The steps of reasoning Descartes goes through to contradict the idea of an Evil Genius logically makes sense and is convincing that there is a God. ... Hume's idea of self is that we are a collection of perceptions and impressions. Perceptions and impressions are visuals that strike the mind with most force or violence. Perceptions and impressions create memories that resemble ob...

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Moreover, this perception did not originate from the experiences of the world, nor was this drawn from the senses. Rather, he believes that this perception of God is prior to his own perception, and it could only actually arise from a perfect being. Thus Descartes concludes the only remaining option to be that this perception was innate in him. ... In the " Meditation Five," Descartes attempts to prove his hypothesis of the existence of God based on the theory of clarity and distinctness of perception. ... These ideas were not fabricated by him, and they have...

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Since experiences that come through the sense do not allow us to interact or come into contact with the object itself. ... He is aware that he thinks, makes decisions, and is conscious of what he does, but he still rejects his body and sense. ... He identifies the antecedent form of skepticism with doubt of Descartes that questions all former opinions and the sense. ... Hume concludes about the senses that they deceive us entirely and that experience can not take us beyond the perception we call into doubt. ... Moore's Defence of Common Sense appears to me to be most critical of ...

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Rene Descartes, in his first meditation, tells us that everything in this world is dubious and that we cannot rely on our senses/perceptions. ... He has perceptions and therefore, exists. ... (Descartes 131) Corporeal things exist because God has given us no reason to doubt him and therefor our perceptions of these things must come from the things themselves. ... He perceives all things, even those which we do not perceive and he creates the order of our perceptions. ... This is Russell's principle of simplicity, "Thus every principle of simplicity urges us to adopt the natural view...

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Though the relation of cause and effect seems to be completely logical and based on common sense, he discusses our impressions and ideas and why they are believed. ... We have only two ways of doing that, either by an immediate perception of our memory or senses, called impressions, or, by an inference from other causes, called thoughts. ... Perceptions that enter the body with force form impressions, including sensations, passions and emotions. ... Simple perceptions or ideas admit of no distinction or separation, where complex can be divided into parts. ... Ideas are preceded by other more l...

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The way in which Idealism solves the problem of the apparent causal interaction between the mental and material worlds is by claiming that this interaction is merely an illusion and a misunderstanding of our perceptions. ... His argument cannot be refuted and goes as follows: Premise 1: For a material thing to truly exist, it must exist independently of a mind sensing it. ... Furthermore, in response to Idealism as a whole, there is no proof that God exists as a mental substance who has the ability to control our thoughts and perceptions. ... However it does rely on what I believe to b...

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His method of doubt leads him to rely only on his mind, at least for the duration of the Meditations, and in this sense shows how the mind and body are distinct. ... In this sense Descartes is a foundationalist as he seeks to question even his most basic opinions and start again from the beginning. ... Here it is clear that one sense, sight, will fool you. ... This suggests that not even he believes in the paradox which he set out when he said that sense perception cannot give us any knowledge of the world we live in. ...

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The idea that time is stationary and that humans advance through it makes much more sense. ... This idea indicates that human consciousness advances up a timelike direction - that because of human consciousness and perception, time has relevance in people's lives where it would not if humans did not impose it upon themselves. ...

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