PHL100Y1 Chapter Notes -Regular Polygon
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[1] the fourth meditation deals with an objection that arises out of the meditator"s attempt to prove god"s existence in the third meditation. But before we look at that, there is a classic objection raised against the proof in the third meditation, initially voiced by antoine arnauld in his fourth objections. It"s so famous it has a name: the cartesian circle. here"s how. But we can be sure that god exists, only because we clearly and evidently perceive that; therefore prior to being certain that god exists, we should be certain that whatever we clearly and evidently perceive is true. In short, the meditator seems to appeal to what he is trying to prove in the course of his proof. Whether he does in fact do so is a matter of controversy. That"s surely too strong a claim: we are sometimes fooled, even if we aren"t always fooled.
