PHL 708 Lecture 2: PHL 708 - Week Two
10 Oct 2018
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At the time, his meditations were a radical idea. The way he posed ideas and what they stood for. Exploration into the possibility that there is no such thing. No specific definition, but in a broad form: to have knowledge is to grasp/understand truth/reality. A belief in something does not equate to knowledge. To have knowledge, you can"t imagine something being otherwise (ie. being false) You must believe something in order to have knowledge of it. Meditation one: concerning those things that can be called into doubt. If legitimate doubts can be conceived, find something that can"t be doubted. Accept as truth only those things that cannot be doubted. Belief that your senses tell you the truth. What the sense present to us as being there, is in fact there. When we are asleep, we are deceived that our dreams are real. Dream images are drawn from real life experiences.
