Name: PHILOSOPHY - Mind: Mind-Body Dualism [HD]
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the view that we are not
physical or material things.

And if we're not physical
or material things,

of this beautiful piece
of Swiss engineering.

Similarly if your body
is devoured by worms

means that there's no
hope for immortality.

The seventeenth-century
philosopher Rene Descartes

the view is sometimes
called "Cartesian dualism."

It's basically a variant
of Descartes's argument,

given by the contemporary
philosopher Saul Kripke

in his classic book "Naming a Necessity,"

And what's more, it's a simplified version

Everyone, dualist or not,
can agree you and Bert

However, that doesn't
mean that you are Bert.

And according to the dualist, you aren't.

And what the dualist
argument tries to establish

More explicitly, you are
not identical to Bert.

You are not one in the same thing as Bert.

between truths that could have been false

and truths that could not have been false.

fulfilling and secure
career than philosophy,

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PHILOSOPHY - Mind: Mind-Body Dualism [HD]

relevant

material

situation

physical