Decarte

Put the following in the order in which Descartes puts them in doubt in Meditation One.

1.) While driving, you see a traffic cone next to the road in the distance, and it looks like a person.

2.) You think, "I am awake now."

3.) You are sitting at home in pajamas reading a book, and you think, "These are my hands holding the book."

4.) You are doing an easy geometry problem, and you think, "This angle A is equal to angle B, and B is equal to angle C, so angle A must be equal to angle C."

Why does Descartes say in Meditation Two that he must be a "thinking thing"?

The all-powerful evil genius might be tricking him by getting him to believe he has a body.

He thinks he exists and is aware of having thoughts.

What does Descartes infer from the wax example?

Neither the senses nor the imagination give us what we perceive the wax to be.  Instead, the mind does that.

How do errors in our judgments about truth arise, according to Descartes?

When we affirm or deny beliefs beyond what we can think clearly about. 

Descartes argues that mind has no parts, while any material thing does have parts.  So these cannot be the same kind of thing. 

The mind cannot be immaterial because if so, then its causal interaction with the body would impart an effect with greater energy than the physical causes.