Descartes' Method of Doubt
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- Created on: 30-03-14 09:50
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- Descartes' Method
- 1. Begins with doubt
- a radical skepticism
- any doubt is sufficient for treating it as false
- 2. Rejects Empiricism
- can't trust our senses - deceive us
- victims of illusion, dreams, demons
- 3. Reason
- this is what makes Descartes a rationalist
- use human intellect alone to establish truths
- What are these truths?
- A priori/Innate
- Certain - not open to doubt
- inconceivable that evidence should be presented against them
- Foundational Beliefs - build beliefs on them
- 1. Own existence 2. A perfect god exists
- Self-Justified Beliefs
- nothing need to establish certainty
- Analytic Truths - true by definition
- Deduction - deduce from foundational beliefs
- if general truth is true then this most also be true
- What are these truths?
- 1. Begins with doubt
- use human intellect alone to establish truths
- What are these truths?
- A priori/Innate
- Certain - not open to doubt
- inconceivable that evidence should be presented against them
- Foundational Beliefs - build beliefs on them
- 1. Own existence 2. A perfect god exists
- Self-Justified Beliefs
- nothing need to establish certainty
- Analytic Truths - true by definition
- Deduction - deduce from foundational beliefs
- if general truth is true then this most also be true
- What are these truths?
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