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Dualism. Karen, Velda, Beverley, Victoria, Natalie

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Dualism.

Karen, Velda, Beverley, Victoria, Natalie

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Platonic Argument

Created by Plato

Mind and soul could pre-exist

4 arguments from Phaedo: Opposites, Recollection. Affinity, Forms

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Discernability argument

For anything objects to be identical –A=B

There must only be one set of properties

Mind body

Intentionality Cannot measure with physical magnitude

aboutness

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Natural belief in dualism

- We naturally regard humans as more important

- Something that makes us unique, different

- Belief in afterlife

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Cartesian

-based on "I think therefore I am"

-The body and mind are separate

-different proporties - unidentical

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Introspection

Humans can look within themselves

“I am in contact with myself.”

The example of the neuroscientist.