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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 really carefully, I find that they are all open to doubt." Why does he say so?

2. How does Descartes cast doubt on the features attributed to the soul/mind? On sense-perception?

3. Up to this point, what can Descartes not doubt?

4. What kind of thing, according to Descartes, is a human being?

5. What, according to Descartes, is "A thing that thinks"?

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?

7. Explain in your own words Descartes' wax example.

8. How does Descartes' example of the robots show the difference between "seeing" and "judging"?

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?"