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Descartes Methodological Doubt

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In his first meditation, Rene Descartes outlines the idea of doubt, which was aimed to show the difficulty of not being able to doubt something. He outlines two key traits of doubt. One of which Experimental and the other Methodological. Experimental doubt (did I lock my house or turn of my headlights) on the other hand Methodological doubt derives from the idea of doubting a belief given the circumstance that there are grounds for doubting it. Descartes puts the idea of doubt in association with whole false statements to which he proclaims “Anything which admits of the slightest doubt I will set aside just as if I have found it to be wholly false, I will proceed in this way until I recognise something certain” (Meditation 2) In this argument it is important to examine two types of beliefs to which doubt can be applied to which is Factual and Apriori. Descartes successfully scopes doubt under three categories, Deceiving Senses argument, Dream Argument and evil demon argument. It is argued that we doubt because of the fallibility of our own senses. Descartes tests this using the hats argument, we cannot see who or what is under the hat but we assume it is another human being and not a cleverly disguised robot. The Dream argument states the plausibility of dreaming everything to accordance of our own imagination. Lastly the deceiving demon argument puts forth the possibility of a deceiving demon who enforces its power to deceive me. In accordance with the ideas brought about by Descartes, it is possible that his methodological idea of doubt can be limited through finding an incorrigible truth. In doing so it must be a truth which cannot be doubted by the three stimuli of doubt. Descartes looks for the idea of a incorrigible truth, which is a truth that cannot be corrected. He later finds the this truth in meditation two to which he states “I exist ,if I think anything, while I was trying to think everything was false, it was n

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