Materialism, Idealism, & Dualism

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