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Descartes
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How does try to extricate himself from the sceptical doubts
that he has raised? Does he succeed?
by Tom Nuttall
[All page references and quotations from the Meditations are taken from
the 1995 Everyman edition]
In the Meditations, Descartes embarks upon what Bernard Williams has
called the projec ....
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....gly dismissed the attempts of
theologians and scientists to understand the nature of God and the
universe respectively. Descartes felt the force of sceptical arguments and,
while not being sceptically disposed himself, came to believe that
scepticism towards knowledge was the best way to discover what is certain:
by applying sceptical doubt to all our beliefs, we can discover which of
them are indubitable, and thus form an adequate foundation for knowledge.
The third world-view resulted largely .... |
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