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Descartes First Meditation
Title: Descartes First Meditation
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 914 | Pages: 3.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Descartes First Meditation
Descartes’ first meditation, his main objective is to present three skeptical arguments to bring doubt upon what he considers his basic beliefs. Descartes believes this to be an intricate part of his complete epistemological argument. Descartes skeptical arguments are not intended to be a denial of his basic beliefs. On the contrary, he uses these arguments to help prove one of his main theses, which is the existence of God. One of the main premises …showed first 75 words of 914 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 914 total…of doubt into the beliefs which he took for granted, such as the existence of the external world. So he would be able to disprove these doubts in order to prove his original beliefs. Looking at Descartes argument in these terms it can be seen that he did accomplish the task that he set out to do, even though one has to except the fact that he will always believe in the existence of God.
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