Jayson Brod: 1. Descartes wanted to know one thing he could be sure of. He found other philosophy clouded by compound untruths.2. He doubted the truth of his senses: one might see something that was not there, feel as though the room were (say) unsteady but it might not be really so.3. He believes that the one thing he could know was that he was thinking. Everything else was dubious. He wanted to start all over again, from scratch.4. For him thinking was proof of his own existence. Cogito ergo sum.[5. I don't see why thinking is proof of existing. Couldn't he be imagining that as well. But Descartes thought it was, and I guess the issue here is what he thought, not what I think.]...Show more
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Thurman Buege: Newman took his position apart...I will leave the details to you...but it starts out with thinking that much of what we know must be true and we only need to clarify further, rather than we know nothing and must clear the tab! le and start from scratch. You see , Descartes is making a methodological statement not an epistemological one, else he would have to say we can never know anything.
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