1. It seems to me that the Descartes main purpose of doubting everything is a way of showing how flawed Skepticism is and how you can defeat it on its own grounds.
2. Descartes’s presents different stages of doubt, this includes:
Perceptual beliefs: Could be illusions, hallucinations, or dreams.
Memories: The past may have been different than you remember.
Calculations: You may have made an error in your calculations.
Beliefs concerning math or logic: You may have a feeling of certainty when considering false beliefs.
3. At the end of his doubting everything, the only thing Descartes are certain about is “I think, therefore I am”, this is known as “Cogito ergo sum” in Latin. Descartes argues that we may not actually have a physical body but what he is …show more content…
In Descartes’ Meditations and John Pollock’s Brain in a Vat share some similarities, these similarities that include versions of the evil demon theory the narrator witnesses’ surgeons in a laboratory removing a man named Harry’s brain from his body and placing it in a vat of nutrient with tubes and wires connected to it. The narrator is suddenly captured, held down, and informed that Harry is not dead; his brain is being kept alive in the nutrient. The wires stemming from his brain connects it to a powerful computer that provides input to the sensory cortex, so in Harry’s mind is projecting normal circumstances of everyday life. It is unveiled that the same procedure was performed on the narrator three months back. Now in Descartes’ Meditations his theory goes as this, though he believes that an Omniscient, Omnipotent and Omnipresence God could not in his wonderfulness could possibly deceive his creation, so Descartes argues that it is a passable that some evil demon has committed itself to deceiving him so that everything he thinks he knows is false. By doubting everything, he can at least be sure not to be misled into any falsehood by this demon. I do not see any differences between Descartes and Pollock
2. Descartes’s presents different stages of doubt, this includes:
Perceptual beliefs: Could be illusions, hallucinations, or dreams.
Memories: The past may have been different than you remember.
Calculations: You may have made an error in your calculations.
Beliefs concerning math or logic: You may have a feeling of certainty when considering false beliefs.
3. At the end of his doubting everything, the only thing Descartes are certain about is “I think, therefore I am”, this is known as “Cogito ergo sum” in Latin. Descartes argues that we may not actually have a physical body but what he is …show more content…
In Descartes’ Meditations and John Pollock’s Brain in a Vat share some similarities, these similarities that include versions of the evil demon theory the narrator witnesses’ surgeons in a laboratory removing a man named Harry’s brain from his body and placing it in a vat of nutrient with tubes and wires connected to it. The narrator is suddenly captured, held down, and informed that Harry is not dead; his brain is being kept alive in the nutrient. The wires stemming from his brain connects it to a powerful computer that provides input to the sensory cortex, so in Harry’s mind is projecting normal circumstances of everyday life. It is unveiled that the same procedure was performed on the narrator three months back. Now in Descartes’ Meditations his theory goes as this, though he believes that an Omniscient, Omnipotent and Omnipresence God could not in his wonderfulness could possibly deceive his creation, so Descartes argues that it is a passable that some evil demon has committed itself to deceiving him so that everything he thinks he knows is false. By doubting everything, he can at least be sure not to be misled into any falsehood by this demon. I do not see any differences between Descartes and Pollock