Rene Descartes 1596-1650 Rene Descartes 1596-1650

Sense Impressions from BodilyObjects or God?1. So, the body is an extended substance for we have clear and distinctexperiences of changing our position and moving about, activitiesthat imply a body.2. We also receive sense impressions, of sight, doing, and touch,frequently even against our will, and these lead us to believe thatthey come from bodies other than our own.3. They must by conveyed to me by material, corporeal objects.Otherwise, if they came from God then he could not “be defendedfrom the accusation of deceit if these ideas were produced bycauses other than corporeal objects.145