descartes
Descartes Descartes believed that we should ask what it would mean to know about reality, and to examine what reality meant. He claims that unless we know first whether our belief itself is justified we can't know. To determine whether our beliefs are justified, we have to be able to trace them back to a statement, belief, or proposition that cannot be doubted. Like many other philosophers the only true and believable facts are mathematical. But if achieved, such a proposition could place the firm foundation on which all subsequent beliefs could be grounded; it would guarantee that all subsequent claims based on it would be true. Descartes was big on doubting everything. For us to distinguish this base of ultimate truth and knowledge, of which all other knowledge can be based, Descartes described a process. This method is to take away all confidence in which has been taught, what the senses tell us, and what is thought is obvious, basically, regarding all that is known by us. !In order to determine whether there is anything we can know with certainty, he says that we first have to doubt everything. This doubting does not fully seem unreasonable. What he suggests is that, in order to see if there is some belief that cannot be dou
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Approximate Word count = 943
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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