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their answers by means of relating it to the folks that they already told
(the norms) and were structured over time. They uses their “literary
“coherent facts”. While Philosophers only uses their own logics that
like.) and extracting the best that they think they produced. And
more critical and coherent in their thoughts. Where people can arrived
creatures.
arrived at it.
Descartes thought that the Scholastics’ method was prone to doubt given their reliance on
sensation as the source for all knowledge. Descartes attempted to address the former issue
via his method of doubt. From here Descartes sets out to find something that lies beyond
all doubt. He eventually discovers that “I exist” is impossible to doubt and is, therefore,
absolutely certain. It is from this point that Descartes proceeds to demonstrate God’s
existence and that God cannot be a deceiver. Descartes also applied this mechanistic
framework to the operation of plant, animal and human bodies, sensation and the
passions.
URL:
(http://www.iep.utm.edu/descarte/)
(http://www.philosophy.utah.edu/faculty/newman/papers/DRE_Blac
kwellCompanion.pdf)
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-epistemology/)
(http://www.directessays.com/viewpaper/13407.html)
are one of the bravest individuals that usually questions the norms and
even the smallest bits of things. Which most of the time facinates
people,like me, and leads to doubting what is presented to us and
make us believe.