clear and distinct ideas
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- Created on: 05-06-18 23:45
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- CLEAR AND DISTINCT IDEAS
- DESCARTES thought experiment
- radically doubts everything
- eliminates senses, God and his own body
- this left him with existence and mathematics concepts
- eliminates senses, God and his own body
- radically doubts everything
- COGITO ERGO SUM - I'm thinking therefore I am existing
- he is certain of his existence and says its 'clear and distinct'
- Descartes concludes that to rationally doubt must be the criteria to achieve clear and distinct ideas
- EVILS DEMON SCENARIO
- 'you can't be nothing as long as you are something'
- CLEAR
- sufficient degree of strength and ability
- DISTINCT
- sharply separated from all other perceptions
- CRITICISMS
- not clear and distinct enough
- quick generalisation
- only internal criteria for truth
- can we be sure clear and distinct ideas are true?
- God could have made him deceive
- he argues that a good god would not make the most clear and distinct thoughts false
- God could have made him deceive
- what makes a belief true is how it relates to the external world
- correspondence theory of truth
- can we be sure clear and distinct ideas are true?
- any belief conceived clearly and distinctly must also have to be true
- based on thin evidence
- only internal criteria for truth
- need more detailed accounts - relying on feelings is not enough
- quick generalisation
- not clear and distinct enough
- DESCARTES thought experiment
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