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We want…
ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY!
Nope!!!
Senses Easily Fooled
Senses Easily Fooled
Reason for Doubt?
You might be surprised!
Do You see
Movement?
The Senses Deceive Us!!
The Senses Deceive Us!!
The Senses are Unreliable!!
Seeing
Sensory
Feeling Perception Hearing
Tasting
Doubting the Senses
Descartes on the reliability of the
senses…
“The senses deceive from time to time,
and it is prudent never to trust wholly
those who have deceived us even once”
Don’t know if we
are dreaming or
not. Possibility. Not Probability
But what about math and
geometry?
Surely, it is impossible to be wrong about
these things, right?
2+3=5
Evil Genius Argument
No Material
Body
Deceived by
Evil Genius
I might be
dreaming
My Senses
may be
wrong But, Even if all those things
were true, there would still
be something I could be
absolutely, 100% certain
about……….
Being Deceived
Doubting
Dreaming
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Must Exist!
-Descartes and Plato-
Rationalists
What makes us “us”?