1. According to Hobbes, why does a mechanistic account of causation exclude non-physical (i.e., spiritual, mental) substances from the natural/physical world?
2. How does Hobbes explain our having sense ideas or thoughts in terms of bodies in motion?
3. What does Hobbes mean by saying that imagination is "nothing but decaying sense"? and how is imagination different from understanding?
4. How is Hobbes' account of reasoning consistent with his purely materialistic account of thought?
5. What role do "words of general signification" (abstractions) play in the distinction between error and absurdity?
6. How are appetite or desire, love and hate, good and evil, and deliberation itself based originally on insensible bodily motions? (Say something about each.)
7. Put in terms of bodies in motion, what is the difference between deliberation and an act of will (a voluntary action)? How are voluntary actions possible for Hobbes?
8. How does Hobbes' methodology set the stage for treating social, religious, and moral beliefs in purely materialistic terms?