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Meditations on First Philosophy Quotes Showing 1-30 of 34. “It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.”. ― René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy. tags: deception, lies, trust, truth. 153 likes.
FIRST MEDITATION: On what can be called into doubt. Some years ago I was struck by how many false things I had believed, and by how doubtful was the structure of beliefs that I had based on them.
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The two phrases in quotation marks are crucial, because in them Descartes states his purpose: to discover what, if anything, is really certain. It is for the sake of this goal that Descartes resolves to doubt his previous beliefs. An analogy of Descartes’s own nicely illustrates his basic strategy.
The Cartesian Method of Doubt (Meditation 1) Descartes begins his first Meditation by laying out the reasons why he is choosing to doubt all his beliefs, and the method by which he will go about doing it.