PHIL 2501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Foundationalism
12 Apr 2016
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Descartes is doubing everything: doubing mythological doubt, being very scepic, he is very concerned with certainty. Because he is trying to build his own idea of the world and trying to build from the ground up = foundaionalism (to know what we think that we know, we gota build from ground up) He realizes that the senses deceive us! He never doubts that he doubts: he says that : the mind is transparent to itself! There is no possibility of error when you have a thought. Therefore, the kinds of mental states that you have; you are infallible in them. Ex: you can never be wrong in thinking that you knew something: i. e. : i thought i saw a dog turns out it was a cat nevertheless, i sill. Thought i saw a dog: cogito: i think therefore i am. Many say that that is a self-verifying statement: so descartes was:
