\nDescription
\nWhat?is?Descartes?s?method?of?doubt,?and?what?does?he?hope?to?gain?by?it??Describe?and?motivate?the?three
\nstages?of?doubt?through?which?Descartes?progresses?in?the?first?of?his?meditations.?(You?will?need?to?say
\nprecisely?what?is?doubted?at?each?stage?to?completely?describe?it).?How?do?these?stages?move?him?closer?to?his
\ngoal?
\nThat?is?the?question?that?needs?to?be?answered?in?2?pages,?100%?not?plagiarism.?
\nWhat?I?got?so?far?is?the?following:
\nDescartes?states?that?starting?as?a?child?and?throughout?his?lifetime?he?accepted?opinions?that?in?fact?were?false,
\nand?everything?he?did?with?that?information?later?on?could?be?seen?as?being?doubtful.?Throughout?the?first
\nmeditation?Descartes?doubts?everything,?he?develops?a?basic??method?of?doubt??which?is?a?way?to?defeat
\nskepticism?on?it?own?range?and?beliefs,?he?does?not?doubt?knowledge?rather?he?doubts?the?structures?that?give?us
\nhumans?knowledge.
\nHe?begins?by?doubting?everything?from?the?evidence?of?a?certain?thing,?like?the?senses,?to?doubting?the
\nfundamentals?of?reasoning?and?the?process?of?such.?If?what?he?doubts?can?manage?to?succeed?and?survive?the
\nskeptical?objection?that?Descartes?is?putting?upon?it,?then?such?thing?must?be?undoubtable?and?therefore?a?true
\nfundamental?of?knowledge.?
\nBy?doing?this?Descartes?hopes?to?establish???something?lasting?and?unbreakable?in?the?sciences??(Descartes?pg
\n17).?Meaning?he?wants?to?place?a?foundation?secure?enough?for?the?sciences?to?use,?because?the?scientists?did?not
\nknow?where?to?begin?in?the?hunt?of?knowledge,?and?to?disproof?the?many?false?opinions?he?had?accepted?as?a
\nchild.??The?three?stages?of?doubt?according?to?Descartes:
\n1)?The?Sensory?perspective?or?perceptual?illusions:?This?stage?is?in?which?Descartes?tries?to?show?that?our
\nknowledge?of?things?through?our?senses?can?be?doubtful,?and?we?should?not?trust?them?after?they?have?deceived
\nus,?meaning?to?make?us?believe?something?that?is?not?true.?Things?aren’t?always?as?they?appear?to?be?at?first
\nglance,?if?all?of?our?knowledge?of?the?exterior?came?to?us?through?our?senses?then?we?could?not?even?be?sure?such
\nthings?existed.?And?if?we?know?that?such?things?exist?then?they?knowledge?of?them?cannot?come?through?our
\nsenses?but?through?our?mind.
\n2)?The?Dream?illusion?or?dream?state:?Descartes?doubts?the?dream?process?which?is?kind?of?connected?to?the
\nsensory?perspective,?since?all?vivid?dreams?are?not?able?to?be?identified?as?different?from?our?waking
\nexperiences,?it?could?be?possible?that?what?we?are?now?persiving?as?reality?could?be?a?fabrication?of?our
\nimagination.?This?brings?the?argument?that?there?might?not?be?a?external?world?and?physical?thing?do?not?exist.
\n3)?A?deceiving?God:?In?this?stage?of?doubt?Descartes?talks?about?an?all?powerful?God,?that?could?be?tinkering
\nwith?Descartes??mind?and?trying?to?deceive?him,?what?he?mean?by?this?is?that?God?can?at?any?given?time?choose
\nto?make?him?confused?about?the?world?around?him,?anything?Descartes?believes?is?true?could?end?up?appearing
\nas?false,?even?basic?arithmetic?and?geometry,?so?it’s?possible?to?doubt?the?truth?of?everything?and?anything.?He
\nthen?introduces?the?idea?of?a?evil?demon?which?is?a?mnemonic?device?that?can?deceive?him?as?well,?and?descartes
\nwill?use?it?as?a?way?to?remember?his?reasons?of?doubt.?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Description What?is?Descartes?s?method?of?doubt,?and?what?does?he?hope?to?gain?by?it??Describe?and?motivate?the?three stages?of?doubt?through?which?Descartes?progresses?in?the?first?of?his?meditations.?(You?will?need?to?say precisely?what?is?doubted?at?each?stage?to?completely?describe?it).?How?do?these?stages?move?him?closer?to?his goal? That?is?the?question?that?needs?to?be?answered?in?2?pages,?100%?not?plagiarism.? What?I?got?so?far?is?the?following: Descartes?states?that?starting?as?a?child?and?throughout?his?lifetime?he?accepted?opinions?that?in?fact?were?false, and?everything?he?did?with?that?information?later?on?could?be?seen?as?being?doubtful.?Throughout?the?first meditation?Descartes?doubts?everything,?he?develops?a?basic??method?of?doubt??which?is?a?way?to?defeat skepticism?on?it?own?range?and?beliefs,?he?does?not?doubt?knowledge?rather?he?doubts?the?structures?that?give?us humans?knowledge. He?begins?by?doubting?everything?from?the?evidence?of?a?certain?thing,?like?the?senses,?to?doubting?the fundamentals?of?reasoning?and?the?process?of?such.?If?what?he?doubts?can?manage?to?succeed?and?survive?the skeptical?objection?that?Descartes?is?putting?upon?it,?then?such?thing?must?be?undoubtable?and?therefore?a?true fundamental?of?knowledge.? By?doing?this?Descartes?hopes?to?establish???something?lasting?and?unbreakable?in?the?sciences??(Descartes?pg 17).?Meaning?he?wants?to?place?a?foundation?secure?enough?for?the?sciences?to?use,?because?the?scientists?did?not know?where?to?begin?in?the?hunt?of?knowledge,?and?to?disproof?the?many?false?opinions?he?had?accepted?as?a child.??The?three?stages?of?doubt?according?to?Descartes: 1)?The?Sensory?perspective?or?perceptual?illusions:?This?stage?is?in?which?Descartes?tries?to?show?that?our knowledge?of?things?through?our?senses?can?be?doubtful,?and?we?should?not?trust?them?after?they?have?deceived us,?meaning?to?make?us?believe?something?that?is?not?true.?Things?aren’t?always?as?they?appear?to?be?at?first glance,?if?all?of?our?knowledge?of?the?exterior?came?to?us?through?our?senses?then?we?could?not?even?be?sure?such things?existed.?And?if?we?know?that?such?things?exist?then?they?knowledge?of?them?cannot?come?through?our senses?but?through?our?mind. 2)?The?Dream?illusion?or?dream?state:?Descartes?doubts?the?dream?process?which?is?kind?of?connected?to?the sensory?perspective,?since?all?vivid?dreams?are?not?able?to?be?identified?as?different?from?our?waking experiences,?it?could?be?possible?that?what?we?are?now?persiving?as?reality?could?be?a?fabrication?of?our imagination.?This?brings?the?argument?that?there?might?not?be?a?external?world?and?physical?thing?do?not?exist. 3)?A?deceiving?God:?In?this?stage?of?doubt?Descartes?talks?about?an?all?powerful?God,?that?could?be?tinkering with?Descartes??mind?and?trying?to?deceive?him,?what?he?mean?by?this?is?that?God?can?at?any?given?time?choose to?make?him?confused?about?the?world?around?him,?anything?Descartes?believes?is?true?could?end?up?appearing as?false,?even?basic?arithmetic?and?geometry,?so?it’s?possible?to?doubt?the?truth?of?everything?and?anything.?He then?introduces?the?idea?of?a?evil?demon?which?is?a?mnemonic?device?that?can?deceive?him?as?well,?and?descartes will?use?it?as?a?way?to?remember?his?reasons?of?doubt.?<\/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-234414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234414","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=234414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}