When Descartes writes that a thinking thing is “A thing that doubts, understands, affirms, denies, wants, refuses, and also imagines and senses,” one important take away is:

Given the previous question: it is possible to know that 2+2 = 5.

When Descartes writes, “Now that I have convinced myself that there is nothing in the world—no sky, no earth, no minds, no bodies—does it follow that….”, he is worried that…

What is the point of Descartes’ writing: “I certainly seem to see, to hear, and to be warmed. This cannot be false; what is called ‘sensing’ is strictly just this seeming, and when ‘sensing’ is understood in this restricted sense of the word it too is simply thinking.” Choose all that apply:

What is the point of Descartes’ writing: “I certainly seem to see, to hear, and to be warmed. This cannot be false; what is called ‘sensing’ is strictly just this seeming, and when ‘sensing’ is understood in this restricted sense of the word it too is simply thinking.” Choose all that apply:

At the beginning of the Second Meditation, Descartes: 

At the beginning of the Second Meditation, Descartes: 

In the video with Nicholas Cage, one mistake that is made is contrasting determinism with randomness. It was a mistake because:

Given the previous question: it is possible to know that 2+2 = 5.

The four major areas of philosophy are?