PHIL 101 EXAM 3 JMU YATES QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS SOLVED 100% CORRECT!!
Descartes is a... ✔✔Rationalist
Descartes' focus ✔✔Truth of reality and capabilities of knowledge certainty
Descartes wants to get at... ✔✔The foundations of things
Descartes likes ____________ truths ✔✔Clear, logical
Who likes radical doubt? ✔✔Descartes
Who is renewing Aristotle's substance? ✔✔Descartes
What is substance? ✔✔The "stuff" of things
What are Descartes 3 main concerns? ✔✔How to preserve an understanding of
God as providential and the world as God's good creation; How can humans be
partially material in nature and yet also made of minds/thoughts; how to deal
with our sense as primary yet our mind as best for knowledge
Descartes believes each natural thing has ________ and _________ ✔✔Surface
qualities and inner essence
, What are surface qualities? ✔✔Properties of something, attributes, accidents
What is inner essence? ✔✔Baseline definition and purpose of something
Reality is made up of 3 kinds of substance, which are... ✔✔Divine being,
material being, and mental being
Descartes had the ____ vs _______ problem ✔✔Mind vs body
What is material substance? ✔✔Natural things
What is mental substance? ✔✔Ideas and consciousness
What does extension mean? ✔✔To take up space
What is the main quality of material substances? ✔✔Extension
"Thinking connects us to the world in a way different from senses"
✔✔Descartes
Two issues with Descartes philosophy of substance ✔✔Metaphysical issue and
epistemological issue
Descartes metaphysical issue ✔✔We are both material and mental; we have
bodily substance and consciousness/thought
ANSWERS SOLVED 100% CORRECT!!
Descartes is a... ✔✔Rationalist
Descartes' focus ✔✔Truth of reality and capabilities of knowledge certainty
Descartes wants to get at... ✔✔The foundations of things
Descartes likes ____________ truths ✔✔Clear, logical
Who likes radical doubt? ✔✔Descartes
Who is renewing Aristotle's substance? ✔✔Descartes
What is substance? ✔✔The "stuff" of things
What are Descartes 3 main concerns? ✔✔How to preserve an understanding of
God as providential and the world as God's good creation; How can humans be
partially material in nature and yet also made of minds/thoughts; how to deal
with our sense as primary yet our mind as best for knowledge
Descartes believes each natural thing has ________ and _________ ✔✔Surface
qualities and inner essence
, What are surface qualities? ✔✔Properties of something, attributes, accidents
What is inner essence? ✔✔Baseline definition and purpose of something
Reality is made up of 3 kinds of substance, which are... ✔✔Divine being,
material being, and mental being
Descartes had the ____ vs _______ problem ✔✔Mind vs body
What is material substance? ✔✔Natural things
What is mental substance? ✔✔Ideas and consciousness
What does extension mean? ✔✔To take up space
What is the main quality of material substances? ✔✔Extension
"Thinking connects us to the world in a way different from senses"
✔✔Descartes
Two issues with Descartes philosophy of substance ✔✔Metaphysical issue and
epistemological issue
Descartes metaphysical issue ✔✔We are both material and mental; we have
bodily substance and consciousness/thought
