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True/ False: Descarts wants to overcome skeptism?
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Ture: He Descarts would like to get to the objctive truth.
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Describe the different figues that were around during the intellectual climate of Descarts lifetime (aka: "century of genius"
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* Rembrant and Vermeer
* shakespere and Milton * Galileo and Kelper * Pascal, Spinoza and Leibniz |
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why was the 17th century known as a period of doubt?
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1) copernicus challenged the ptolemaic picture of the solar system (earth at the center)
2) changing conceptions of astronomy challenged the senses -- the sun looks like it rises 3. Changing conceptions challenged common sense--part of the meaning of "earth" was "that which is motionless" 4) changing conceptions challeneged aristotles account of the universer( which had been accepted for centuries!) this account unified the sciences, including morality, iinto one coherent and organic philosophical system. 5) Copernican Revolution challenged religion. |
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Meditation I. was also known as what?
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The meditation of doubt.
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What were the three characteristics of the meditation of doubt?
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1. Doubting shoulb be reasonable and systematic.
2. Beliefs that survive the method of doubt are retained, the rest are discarded 3. the surviving doubt-tested beliefs are to be used later in a reconstruction of knowledge. They function like the axioms of geometry. |
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what are the three stages of doubt?
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1) The Argument from sensory illusion
2) The Dream Argument 3) The Evil Demon Argument |
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Describe The argument from sensory illusion
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1) our senses dicieive us some of the time.
2) Whatever can happen some of the time, possibly can happen all of the time. =>3) Its possible that our senses decieve us all of the time. |
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Describe the dream argument
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1) Some dreams are so vivid so as to seem real.
=>2) Any waking experience could be a vivid dream. |
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Describe the evil demon argument.
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1) Its possible that an evil demon exists that decieves me about the existence of an external world and the truths of mathmatics (a priori inferences in general)
2) Anything that its possible to be decieved about are not reliable sources of knowledge. => Apriori inferences and the belief in the external world are not reliable. |
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Foundationalism
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If P is POSSIBLY false,
I count it as ACTUALLY false * Requires absolute certitude knowlege must be built on a firm foundation. (A firm foundaion consists of cogito) |
