PHL210Y1 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - René Descartes, God, Soul
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Meditation one: concerning those things that can be called into doubt: raze everything to the ground and begin again from original foundations: knowledge has a foundation, some beliefs that ground everything else built on top. Intends to root out falsities: if there are improper foundations there can"t be anything true, so call in question all the foundations. "attack straightway those principles which supported everything i once believed. Hyperbolic doubt/skepticism: method for rooting out falsities and question beliefs ("sifting" through) Series of tools of doubt to apply to your beliefs. Series of types of knowledge, some suspect and some not: knowledge claims based on sense perception- vs perceptual error. Senses are sometimes deceptive: visual illusions, the senses are not infallible: prudence: never placing complete trust in something that has deceived us even once- we are deceived often by senses. In dreams, we experience many vivid but implausible things.
