Ryle’s Refutation of the Metaphysical Doctrine Rene Descartes holds a dualist view that the mind and body are two totally separate entities. In response to this Gilbert Ryle has published an article showing that the argument, and its premises, of Descartes’ Metaphysical Doctrine are incorrect. He does not show the premises, themselves, to be individually false, but instead shows that Descartes has simply made an error in his conceptualizations of the mind and body. …showed first 75 words of 940 total…

…showed last 75 words of 940 total…do exist, and that they can lead to many complicated misunderstandings. My personal opinion is that Ryle’s theory has much more validity than Descartes’ simply due to the fact that parts of it can be confirmed, by the fact that most people have made these errors in their own life, and have learned to recognize them. The fact that category errors do exist can be proven, and has been by Ryle himself. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**