PHIL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cartesian Doubt, Cogito Ergo Sum, Foundationalism

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 100
• Professor: Young James O.

Document Summary

Methodological skepticism: doubt anything that can be doubted and anything that is left over is knowledge end of meditation 1: Apparently all of our beliefs can be doubted. Descartes resume the search for a belief that cannot be doubted, something that is certain. He will put aside everything that admits of the least doubt, as if i had discovered it to be completely false. I will stay on this course until i know somethings certain, or, if nothing else until i at least know for certain that nothing is certain (reaf rming methodological skepticism) Anything that can be placed in a foundation is known as truth. Also the name for the argument that descartes gives for believing that i exist is certain. Everytime i think i am, i exist , is necessarily true overtime i utter it or conceive it in my mind.