PHIL 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter Meditations : Firm Foundation, Pineal Gland, Brain Death
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He wants to get rid of all false opinions and everything that he claims to know that is not indubitable. The razing is necessary so he can establish a firm foundation for the sciences to be built upon. he needs to begin at the foundations in order to establish something firm and long lasting from the sciences. He must get rid of false opinions: observe descartes" talk of foundations. He says that you cannot know anything to be true that you learned through your senses without stepping out of your consciousness to experience said thing. He says that things seen while we are asleep are like paintings and ad to have been produced in the likeness of real things therefore those things must exist and be true. I think it"s very strange that he goes about it this way instead of starting iwth what he knows and working toward what he doesn"t know.
