PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mind, Causality, John Tory
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The meditator now seeks a criterion to go on with: a rule that will allow him to decide what is certainly true. Since the meditator is certain a that he is a thinking thing, he asks whether he knows what is required to be certain of something. The only thing he has to go on is a clear and distinct perception that he is. Thinking thing, but that seems good enough; he concludes at the end of 3. 02: And thus i now seem bale to posit as a general rule that everything i perceive very clearly and distinctly is true. There follows a crucial passage at the end of 3. 04: whether there is a god, and, if there is, whether or not he can be a deceiver. But in order to remove even the basis for doubt, i should at the first opportunity inquire. The meditator"s proof of the existence of god.
