Problem 1: Given the possibility of the malicious deceiver, Descartes says of the features that he thought belonged to a body, "when I think about them carefully, I find that they are all open to doubt." Why does he say so?
Problem 2: How does Descartes cast doubt on the features attributed to the soul/mind? On sense-perception?
Problem 3: Up to this point, what can Descartes not doubt?
Problem 4: What kind of thing, according to Descartes, is a human being?
Problem 5: What, according to Descartes, is "A thing that thinks"?
Problem 6: Descartes states, "Lastly, it is also this same 'I' who senses, or is aware of bodily things seemingly through the senses. Because I may be dreaming, I can't say for sure that I now see the flames, hear the wood crackling, and feel the heat of the fire; but I certainly seem to see, to hear, and to be warmed." What is the difference between "seeming" to see and "seeing," according to Descartes?
Problem 7: Explain in your own words Descartes' wax example.
Problem 8: How does Descartes' example of the robots show the difference between "seeing" and "judging"?
Problem 9: Descartes asks the following questions. Answer: "When was my perception of the wax's nature more perfect and clear? Was it when I first looked at the wax and thought I knew it through my senses? Or is it now, after I have enquired more carefully into the wax's nature and how it is known?"