PHL 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Surefire, New Idea, The Foundations
8 Apr 2016
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Mediation one: concerning those things that can be called into doubt. Reject all opinions if there is some reason for doubt. Undermining the foundations of an opinion attacks the principles which supported everything. Only you and yourself can come up with a reason to prove your opinions. Mediation two: concerning the nature of the human mind: that it is better known than the body. Set aside whatever can be weakened by the slightest degree until all that remains are what is certain and unshaken. Thought exists and cannot be separated from you; i am a thing that thinks; Doubts, understands, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses pg. I" does not depend on things of whose existence i do not yet have knowledge . None of what i can grasp by means of the imagination pertains to this knowledge that i have of myself . Nothing i imagined is true, still have the power to imagine.
