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summarise the Descartes trademark argument from his meditations
summarise the Descartes trademark argument from his meditations
p1. i have the concept of god.
p2. my concept of God is infinite and perfect
p3. but i am a finite and imperfect being
p4. the cause of the effect must have as much reality as the effect
c1. so the cause of my concept of god must have had as much reality as what the concept is about.
c2. so the cause of my concept of god must be a perfect being
c3. so god exists
the concept of god is like an innate “trademark”. god has placed the idea of himself inside his head.
Lockes arguments against innate ideas-
No universal assent
Lockes arguments against innate ideas-
No universal assent
People claimed that just because some ideas are held by everyone, they must be innate. Locke attacked the idea that idiots and children do not posses some allegedly ‘innate principles’
Criticisms of the ‘tabula rasa theory brought forward by locke and hume’-Concepts needed for experience
Criticisms of the ‘tabula rasa theory brought forward by locke and hume’-Concepts needed for exp...
we experience the world as a series of objects in space through time, in order to do this we must already have innate ideas of time, causation, unity and space. Sense impressions, prior to any conceptual ordering cannot yet form any experience.
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