PHLA10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Parallel Postulate, Sigmund Freud, Foundationalism
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Described as the father of philosophy tried to develop a kind of epistemology foundationalism. Descartes divided our beliefs into categories: foundational beliefs. Count as knowledge because they rest securely on the solid. A foundationalist theory of knowledge could also be called a euclidean theory foundation of knowledge. first we identify the beliefs that will provide the foundations of knowledge. Second, we show that the rest of our beliefs count as knowledge because they bear some special relationship to the foundational items. The history of geometry shows that it sometimes isn"t so clear whether a given statement is obviously true . Wanted to show that we really do have knowledge of the world we inhabit. By identifying the beliefs that are foundational. The first category descartes considers is the set of beliefs that depend for their justification on sense experience. Based on sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. Dubitability is a logical, not a psychological, property.