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Homework answers / question archive / Question 1 1 / 1 pts According to Cartesian dualism the mind and body are two different sorts of substance, one physical and the other non-physical; the mind and body are different sorts of property inhering in the same substance; there are two types of soul, vegetative and sensitive; there are two types of mind, rational and irrational
Question 1
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According to Cartesian dualism
the mind and body are two different sorts of substance, one physical and the other non-physical;
the mind and body are different sorts of property inhering in the same substance;
there are two types of soul, vegetative and sensitive;
there are two types of mind, rational and irrational.
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According to functionalism, mental states are not defined by
their intrinsic characteristics;
the material in which an information processing system is instantiated;
subjective experience;
any of the above.
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According to property dualism, mental and physical properties
belong to different substances;
are properties of one and the same substance;
cannot exist without one another;
can be considered one and the same thing seen from a duality of viewpoints.
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An emergent property is
one that emerges in the course of development or maturation;
one that emerges in the course of evolution;
a macro-level property that emerges from the organisation of micro-level unit possessing that property to a lesser extent;
a macro-level property that emerges from the organisation micro-level units, but is not possessed by any of those units individually.
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Descartes believed that the role of sense experience in knowledge was
that it gave us direct contact with the empirical world;
that it merely served to awaken innate knowledge that was already within the mind;
that it was the yardstick against which any knowledge claims should be measured;
that it was source of all scientific truth.
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For Descartes, one thing that could not be doubted was
the existence of God;
immediate sense perception;
that, while thinking, he necessarily existed;
that all thought may be subject to the whims of a demon.
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For Ryle, the mind-body problem stems from
introspection on our own mental states;
the fact than the physical and non-physical worlds cannot interact;
linguistic confusion;
the inaccessability of other minds.
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In the 'Meditations', Descartes set out to
prove his own existence;
demonstrate that there was no external world;
find a secure basis for human knowledge;
show that mathematical reasoning was open to doubt.
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One of the reasons that Descartes thought that the mind could not be purely mechanical was that he believed that no mechanism could
produce and use language in a creative way;
respond to sensation;
exhibit learning;
produce intelligible speech.
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The Aristotelian worldview tried to explain natural phenomena
in terms of the particular essences or living forces that dwelt within different classes of individual;
in terms of mechanistic laws that applied to all things and at all places;
as the product of divine intervention;
as the result of inanimate matter being shaped by universal physical forces.
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