1. Rene Descartes and Dualism
... lack identical properties, they must be ontologically different. Their states of existence are different from one another. Secondly, the mind and body are separate from each other because the body is divisible but the mind is indivisible and this is clearly stated by Descartes. "There is a great ... divide a smell or half a sound? Descartes believes that the body, by nature is always divisible. In addition, the mind and body are two separate and different substances due to observability. The physical state is observable but the mind's thoughts are not. The body is observable and measura...
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