Reasons for Thinking Some Ideas are Adventitious
Descartes considers two reasons for thinking that some ideas that seem to have come
from
outside (through sensation) resemble external objects.
- "It seems ... that I am taught this by nature." (IP3 51a)
- "I experience in myself that these ideas do not depend on my will ..." (IP3 51a)
Descartes goes on (IP3 51b) to reject both of these reasons.
Richard Lee,
rlee@uark.edu,
last modified: 31 October 2004
