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What is the difference between understanding & imagining?
Understanding deals with ideas
Imagination deals with thoughts
Understanding deals with pure concepts
Imagination deals with images or represenations
Understanding deals with knowledge
Imagination deals with wishes
Understanding deals with images or representations
Imagination deals with pure concepts
Think of a triangle...
Understanding of triangle
Imagination pictures the exact shape
Understanding of the image
Imagination allows us to understand the triangle
A Chiliagon is a 1,000 sided shape
I understand the concept
I cannot picture it
My imagination is limited
I understand the image
I picture it
My imagination is NOT limited
I understand the concept
I can picture it
My imagination is limited
I understand the image
I cannot picture it
My imagination is NOT limited
Descartes argues that imagination is NOT an essential part of the mind
False
Maybe
True
Depends on the situation
Where do sensations like pleasure, taste, emotion, and pain come from?
They come to us through experience
We know through day to day interactions
They come to us in waves
We know through experience
They come to us voluntarily
We create them in our mind
They come to us involuntarily
We do NOT create them in our mind
Descartes argues the existence of a material world by saying...
There is no physical world but our corporal body exists
The physical world exists but the corporal body does NOT
The physical world exists & so does the corporal body
There is no physical world our bodies are our imagination
Descartes argues that the world we perceive through our senses is not the way it is meaning...
Perception by the senses is confused and obscured
Although the physical world exists
Our senses give us a true perception
Although the physical world exists
Our senses do NOT give us a true perception
Perception by the senses is not confused nor obscured
The relation between mind & body are separate and completely different things
True
False
The body is...
An essence of thought
Indivisible
An extension, meaning you can break it down into smaller parts
A physical aspect of thought
How are the mind and body connected?
They aren't.
An unextended/ non physical mind can't intermingle with an extended/ physical body
They sometimes are connected depending on how one perceives it
A process of intermingling they become one.
The mesh together to become the thinking/ physical organism that we are
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