PHILOS 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: East Los Angeles College, Evil Demon, Epicureanism
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Reason already persuades descartes that one should doubt anything one could doubt. He takes sense perception and calls this into question. He argues sense perception gives no criteria for veridical experience and illusory experience. Descartes then proceeds into truths of reason. The basic assumptions of logic and math- a priori basic truths of arithmetic and geometry can be subject to doubt through the notion of a voluntarist god. Calls the fundamental truths into doubt, to the degree that men can barely or not. Says disregard theological assumptions, brings up that there may be no god, This may be a result of fate, necessity, or the epicurean sense of randomness. He says that this means man would have come about through a complete lack of design, which means we have even less reason to assume that we should be certain about anything. So sense based experience, and rationale/truths of reason a priorpoi reasons.
