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Originally Posted by Ghengis Chron
Meditation I deals with Descartes' Deductive Reasoning, saying whatever we cannot prove absolutely must be false. He uses Deductive Reasoning to obtain Absolute Certainty.
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Well... its not true. Kurt Godel, a mathematician who studied logic, showed that there is logical propositions that cannot be proven to be false or true. Since logic is the most rigorous way of thinking, and even in the logic there is un-provable propositions, surely there is still more un-provable propositions is less rigorous systems of thinking, like philosophy, for example.
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Originally Posted by Ghengis Chron
Descartes applies his Deductive Reasoning to three scenarios. "Could our senses be deceiving us", we are deceived by our sense all the time (pencil in water looks bent), however for the most part, our senses are reliable.
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We are being "deceived" by our senses all the time. We dont see the world as it actually is, but only as our senses "tell" us how it is. For example, there is not what we call "white light". The white is in fact all colors superposed. If we could see the world as it actually is, instead white we would see all colors at the same time. But, our senses and brain interfere, and creates the "white", which seems a pure color. But it is not. Its only a "simplification".
And the same goes for all our senses. What we call the "outside world" which is percieved by our senses is just a representation, a description of the actual world. Very much the white is only a representation of "all the colors together".
But now im left wondering... What would your teacher think if you wrote things like that in your test?
