HUMA 1160 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cartesian Doubt, Age Of Enlightenment

• School: York University
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUMA 1160
• Professor: Stanley Tweyman

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Question 1. is worth 60 marks; question: is worth 25 marks; and question 3. is worth 15 marks. Students can bring a lined sheet of paper to the test to assist in answering question 3. On this sheet, you can have 12 lines of hand-written material in normal hand-writing. This sheet must be handed in together with the test answers: descartes insists that learning can be put on a new foundation, provided that we emulate the method of mathematics. Discuss as fully as you can (a) how descartes believes that the mathematical model can revolutionize learning. Discuss, as well, (b) the key points of difference that descartes identifies between mathematics and the quest for first principles in. Metaphysics-the subject matter of his meditations on first philosophy; and (c) Descartes" reasons for holding in the first meditation and principle v that mathematics can be regarded as dubitable. (your answers should utilize, where relevant, descartes" regulae, his.