PHL 201 Lecture 6: PHL201 Meditation 5 Oct 1st
2 Mar 2017
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Assigned pages are whatever is in the margins. Descartes is trying to see whether he has any certain, unchallengeable, indubitable that him as a being exists. take it to be true. He notices that the performances of mathematical performances and equations. I understand stand what 3 or 5 or multiplication means. While im actively engaged in thinking the process, that kind of claim is unshakable. knowledge. So far his main point is that he can"t doubt his own existence and this is the first foundational knowledge. While he"s having his own thoughts he can"t doubt. When i"m in the midst of thinking something that seems so unshakable, i have to. When you"re not actively in the middle of thinking that problem through, you can start to entertain doubts. It"s only in the midst of doing it that it actually compels.
