Philosophy 1130F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cartesian Doubt, Omnipotence
4 Apr 2016
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Meditation i (1640: the ultimate goal is to establish/find the right foundations for science, the meditator uses the metaphor of a building here. Major renovations: completely starting from scratch to find new foundations for science. Many things were starting to be questioned during this time period. The task of the meditator is to take this knowledge condition and find a way to sort the opinions into categories ones that are true, ones that are false. The question is to find some sort of policy that will help us sort these things so that we end up with only true beliefs and be sure that certain things are false. !1: there are things that are universally true in whatever state. In a dream, a triangle still has three sides. You can do this with all opinions: what if there is a deity who is omnipotent but is not good they are evil.
