1. I am convinced by Descartes’ argument that the self is the most certain of objects. Because his logic and reasoning are good and well augmented, and he also gives the example of the wax experiment. The wax experiment shows that our senses don’t know anything and only the intellect knows the physical things. We know more about the mind than anything we know through the senses.
2. Yes. He things we should distrust the senses because we could not be certain that anything external of us existed, and since we cannot be certain that objects outside of us exists, the things we know cannot be known through our senses, but through our mind.
3. Descartes’ criterion of knowledge lays in the mind and not in the senses.
2. Yes. He things we should distrust the senses because we could not be certain that anything external of us existed, and since we cannot be certain that objects outside of us exists, the things we know cannot be known through our senses, but through our mind.
3. Descartes’ criterion of knowledge lays in the mind and not in the senses.