{"id":121807,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/descartes-method-of-hyperbolic-doubt"},"modified":"2017-08-12T07:21:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T07:21:23","slug":"descartes-method-of-hyperbolic-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/descartes-method-of-hyperbolic-doubt\/","title":{"rendered":"Descartes&#8217; Method of Hyperbolic Doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we will discuss and assess our excerpts from Descartes&#8217;s <\/p>\n<p><b>First Meditation<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, address in as much detail and clarity as possible the following <\/p>\n<p>questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Hyperbolic doubt<\/b>: At the beginning of the First Meditation,\n<p>Descartes announces that he seeks &#8220;to set aside all the opinions which I had <\/p>\n<p>previously accepted&#8221; (p. 177). Why does Descartes wish to do this? Do you <\/p>\n<p>consider his reasons for doing this reasonable? Why or why not? Do you consider <\/p>\n<p>his epistemological project important? Why or why not? <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>The testimony of our senses<\/b>: The first doubt that Descartes\n<p>discusses focuses on the idea that our senses occasionally mislead us. What <\/p>\n<p>conclusions does Descartes draw from this? Do you agree with his line of <\/p>\n<p>thought? Why or why not? <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>The dream argument<\/b>: Descartes&#8217; celebrated dream\n<p>argument&#8211;located in the fourth paragraph of our excerpt&#8211;ends with the <\/p>\n<p>conclusion that there exists no test that one can use to determine whether or <\/p>\n<p>not he is dreaming. Why exactly does Descartes believe this? (HINT: For any <\/p>\n<p>possible test, could it be the case that we merely dream that we perform that <\/p>\n<p>test?) Do you think that Descartes&#8217; reasoning about this is correct? If not, <\/p>\n<p>please identify exactly where his errors lie.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Discussion must be at least 250 words, but may go longer depending on the <\/p>\n<p>topic.<\/p>\n<p>I will not purchase above my max budget. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we will discuss and assess our excerpts from Descartes&#8217;s First Meditation. Specifically, address in as much detail and clarity as possible the following questions: Hyperbolic doubt: At the beginning of the First Meditation, Descartes announces that he seeks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/descartes-method-of-hyperbolic-doubt\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}