Assignment task:
Reading: Descartes Meditation III
1. Given what RD says in the first paragraph, what can we surmise about what Descartes thinks are the mental activities associated with what he calls thinking?
2. Descartes derives a general rule from the first item of knowledge he says is established as a result of the Cogito, i.e., the knowledge that he exists as a thinking thing. What is this general rule?
3. Can ideas, strictly speaking, be false according to Descartes?
4. Is it true that Descartes claims there must be as much reality in the effect of a cause as there is in the cause?