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So sense-perception is the first foundation Descartes attempts to doubt. Doubt: Our senses can mislead us. Whatever I have accepted until now as most true has come to me through my senses.
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.” ― René Descartes. tags: doubt, truth. 700 likes. Like. “I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
In this passage, Descartes is making the claim that good sense—the ability to render identical the objects of our experience with the ideas we have of those objects in our minds—is a common human attribute.
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3 gru 1997 · Descartes presumably agrees that hyperbolic doubt is not (what Peirce calls) a “doubt in our hearts” – recall his concession that “no sane person has ever seriously doubted” such claims as “that there really is a world, and that human beings have bodies” (AT 7:16, CSM 2:11).