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Descartes' Meditation One
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Being a foundationalist, Descartes needs to destroy the foundations of
his beliefs so that in his Meditations he will be able to build upon new
foundations of undeniable and self evident truths. In order to do this Descartes
must first find a valid argument that will allow him to doubt his foundati ....
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....e awake and perceiving their surroundings soundly, they have no way of
knowing for certain that they are not, at that moment, dreaming. Still this
argument is not sufficient in Descartes' quest to doubt “everything”. This is so
because even when we are dreaming we still know certain undeniable truths or a
priori knowledge, these are facts such as a5 + b5 = c5 (in a right triangle) or
that triangles have three sides.
Descartes then begins to entertain the idea of a God who created all
things, c.... |
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