HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Philosophes
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People believed that the human mind developed what was true by understanding the secrets of nature. This revolution could be said, began with the discourse of method (descartes) The idea of isolating a period in time is done to define it to a condition of categories. There are identifiable, common themes that separated from what came before and what came after. From beginning of scientific revolution, you cannot believe anything to be true unless you have been shown proof of its validity. The entire establishment of intellectual world had to be reevaluated. Believe what you want, but you can"t convince me that it"s true because there is no evidence" this becomes a revolutionary set of principles: cannot accept anything to be true unless you prove it to be true. The way to understanding knowledge was through science (application of evidence to problems)
