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Critical Summary: Descartes' Meditations I, II, And VI
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In his First, Second, and Sixth Meditations, Descartes outlines and carries
out part of his plan in search of the indubitable. With the proposal of an
"evil genius" and the noted fallibility of the senses, he casts potential
doubt on virtually all fundamental knowledge (Meditation I). Then he
pro ....
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....ntly cannot be known, the
existence of the self (which is later equated with the mind) can. This is
based on Descartes' belief: "I think that I am something." Furthermore, he
proposes the apparent tautological necessity of one of two possibilities -
the first is that he is correct in that thought, and the second that he is
being evilly deceived in the thought. Naturally, both cases indicate the
conclusion that he does indeed exist, for (conveniently) even in order to
be deceived one needs to exi.... |
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