PHIL 230 Lecture 10: Philosophy 230 W6D1 Lecture 10
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S has evidence/reasons that make it impossible for p to be false: skeptical scenario. A situation such that if you were in it, you would know much less than you think. What is the 1st proposition known for certain. What makes the 1st proposition known for certain. Not any reasons (premises) that he discovers but rather he has the intuition/ rational insight that he has no reason to doubt his existence what intellectual transformation does descartes undergo in the passage. Comes to know with certain that he exists and thereby gains a foundation for knowledge the strongest most ultimate reason to doubt is not a reason to doubt his existence. The ultimate reason to doubt: something is deceiving me as much as possible: me must be a thing. Simply a thing that thinks: found by intuition. Tuesday, february 14, 2017 it seems to me that . Time one: white, oblong, smells like owers, tastes sweet, makes a thud.