01:730:103 Lecture 3: Descartes Meditation 3 Study Question
7 Oct 2018
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The discovery of the first truth suggests a criterion for truth. What is it: the discovery of the first truth suggest a criterion for truth, and that is whatever he perceives clearly and distinctly is. And why does he think so: descartes have to prove whether there is a god or not in order to extend our knowledge beyond certainty that we ourselves exist. Because if he doesn"t prove that then he can never be quite certain about anything else. If the god is a deceiver or not: d says that ideas differ in objective reality . What does he mean: what he means is that each object has its own relevancy, basically the importance of that object and its origin. A tree may have more importance than the color red. So objective reality is basically how important the reality of that object is, or in this case the importance of god is way greater than than the stone.
