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Single Idea 3423

[catalogued under 17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 1. Dualism]

Full Idea

Descartes' dualism combines substance dualism and property dualism; two disparate domains of substances, and two mutually exclusive families of properties.

Gist of Idea

Descartes is a substance AND property dualist

Source

report of René Descartes (Meditations [1641], §6.78) by Jaegwon Kim - Philosophy of Mind p.211

Book Reference

Kim,Jaegwon: 'Philosophy of Mind' [Westview 1998], p.211


A Reaction

I would have thought that substance dualism entailed property dualism. How would you distinguish two substances from one another except by their properties? There seems a merely logical possibility that God gives two substances the same properties.