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Mar 14, 2007 · Ideas are among the most important items in Descartes’ philosophy. They serve to unify his ontology and epistemology. As he says in a letter to Guillaume Gibieuf (1583–1650), dated 19 January 1642, “I am certain that I can have no knowledge of what is outside me except by means of the ideas I have within me.” [] Descartes never published anything that specifically worked out a theory ...
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Dec 3, 1997 · 1.4 Innate Ideas. Descartes’ commitment to innate ideas places him in a rationalist tradition tracing back to Plato. Knowledge of the nature of reality derives from ideas of the intellect, not the external senses. An important part of metaphysical inquiry therefore involves learning to think with the intellect.
Dec 3, 1997 · He seems to take Descartes to be urging us, quite literally, to “consider everything as false,” a strategy which, as he says to Descartes, “made it necessary for you to convince yourself” of the sceptical hypotheses (Objs. 5, AT 7:257–58). But Descartes' method does not require us to dissent from the beliefs it undermines.
Descartes believes that the same phenomena hold true of propositions such as “nothing can exist and not exist at the same time,” and the ever-popular “I think, therefore I am.” Although you cannot doubt clear and distinct perceptions if they are before your mind, once they fall out of your awareness, doubt can creep back in.
So it turns out that it is more reasonable to think that an adventitious idea of the sun does not resemble its cause than to think that it does. And once again, Descartes is pushing the fundamental theme that objects are better known through the understanding than they could be by sense--the thesis of "rationalism." God's Existence. Descartes ...
May 25, 2024 · An evil deceiver, being evil, would lack perfection found in Descartes’ idea of a perfect being. So as powerful as such a being could be, the cause of Descartes’ idea of a perfect being must be more perfect than any evil deceiver. Perhaps any being so perfect would have to be a good God.
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Hence, on this account, a swallow flies for the sake of being a swallow. Although this might be true, it does not say anything new or useful about swallows, and so it seemed to Descartes that Scholastic philosophy and science was incapable of discovering any new or useful knowledge.
