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Phil: Descartes and Evil Genuis

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In the first meditation , Descartes goal as he clearly state is to find indubitable knowledge that can provide a firm foundation to the sciences especially the social sciences . This has since then been termed as the theory of knowledge . In this meditation , Descartes notices that in the due course of his life , he had accepted false beliefs and that these false beliefs had infected other beliefs that he had based upon them His overall aim as stated

in the meditation is to suspend any judgment concerning any of his beliefs which he considers to be evenly and slightly doubtful . Thus in the first meditation , he seeks to suspend all his beliefs about the physical world and consequently regards himself as a prisoner who in real sense enjoys his imaginary freedom while he is sleeping and dreads waking up in the physical world . He thus seeks to set aside his beliefs until such a secure and perfect basis in which to adopt any of them is formed and in this regard , he seeks to find some new beliefs that can not be doubted in truth . It is only after finding these new beliefs that Descartes , according to the first meditation , can reconsider all other questionable beliefs that he had set aside thus deciding which to accept and which one to reject (John , 1998 ,

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In the first meditation , Descartes base his argument on the basis of various aspects . Firstly...

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