Descartes' Meditation 2

The significance of Descartes use of the hat & coat example (pp. 465 para. 2) was he need to show that perceptual judgments aren’t made by the senses, but in fact, they’re made by the mind, or intellect. He wanted to disprove bodies’ dependence on the senses, and present a new argument for the intellect’s ability in making judgments based on senses. So, perception, according to Descartes, is an intellectual action and it entails the mind making certain decisions that go beyond what is perceived by the se...