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Descartes' Meditations
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Descartes overall objective in the Meditations is to question knowledge. To
explore such metaphysical issues as the existence of God and the separation of
mind and body, it was important for him to distinguish what we can know as truth.
He bel .... Middle of Term Paper
... are true indicators of what they represent. By inspecting our
sometimes firm belief in the reality of dreams, he comes to the conclusion that
our senses are prone to error and thereby cannot reliably distinguish between
certainty and falsity. To examine those ideas that have “objective reality,"
Descartes makes the improbable hypothesis of “an evil genius, as clever and
deceitful as he is powerful, who has directed his entire effort to misleading
me” ( ). By proposing this solution he is able to suspend his judgment and
maintain that all his former beliefs are false. By using doubt as his tool,
Descartes is now ready to build his ... |
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