Descartes First Meditation Summary

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Descartes states he is constantly being deceived and it is the result of all the falsehoods he blindly accepted in his childhood. He believes the falsehoods of his life leads him to contemplate the foundation of his knowledge. One falsehood Descartes claims is his senses. He learned most of his knowledge from seeing and his perception deceives him because he can not conclude that he is even awake. He stated he was certain that he was sitting by the fire in a rob with a paper in his hand, however, he doubts even this reality due to his imagination of it being a dream. He concluded his First Meditation by stating there was a demon deceiving him so this led him to the state of doubt to prevent being deceived into his falsehoods. His logic was

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