SOC SCI H1G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Circular Reasoning
21 Jan 2019
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Once you reach what you can no longer doubt, use that to build up more knowledge. Is a skeptic so he can build from the rubble and establish a solid foundation. Things that i can"t doubt when i pay attention to them. Proof of the existence of self and god. Descartes: it seem like i am sitting by the fire. Skeptic: maybe you"re dreaming (sensations are an illusion). D: the i"m still a body in my bed. S: maybe you"re being deceived about that. D: the i"m still in my mind. S: maybe you"re wrong about that, and you"re nothing. I am thinking, i exist is true every time i think it. Deception requires a subject who is being deceived. I have an idea of an infinite being (god is infinite and perfect). *i clearly and distinctly perceive that a cause must be at least as powerful as its effect.
