Examples Of Dualism

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What would you tell me if i told you everything was a dream and nothing that you have lived is true. So you literally want to demolish everything and start from scratch well I welcome you to Descartes's way of thinking. This is just the beginning I would like to first state that dualism is the distinction between physical and mental states. What can be distinguished from the mind and the body are incompatible. For example it's like saying that humans can think with their body but have a clever mind if we were to change the argument i would be correct. Dualism can be worded as when having the mind in progress but can’t make any connections to the body. But to take it a step further the human body is a material thing and the human mind is a …show more content…

As for the human mind uses imagination only gives us the sensation of what we think something might look like but we can never come into contact with it let’s take for example a unicorn we can imagine it and we know the physical characteristic but we can never touch it or come into contact with it. We all have a spiritual mind that enables advantage over others for example very successful people like Steve Jobs that had a vision of the first IPhone and was able to make it a reality if everyone had the same imagination than we would a be visionary that is what makes us unique and gives us the advantage to have a unique foot print. But when we take into consideration material things it can be made up of very similar things and there can be more than …show more content…

Part of the ways that it is proved is when he gives the example of the triangle and being able to mentally see the triangle and its three sides, although if we are asked to see a Chiliagon we are not able to see it because we are not accustomed used to seeing such massive shape. Regarding the chiliagon Descarte states “that he is in the habit of imagining something whenever he thinks of corporeal thing he may construct in his mind a confused representation of some figure but it is clear that it is not a chiliagon” (pg 222). This lets us know that understanding is more powerful than imagination and is our secondary highlight quality it allows the possibility that imagination can be based if things outside of our minds like corporeal