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This 8 page paper examines Descartes' theories in depth. Different ideas are examined as well. This paper ultimately supports the philosopher's position. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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officers are often frustrated by unreliable witnesses who say they saw something but change their minds down the road. Sometimes, they just do not know what they saw. Other examples
of why senses are not always accurate go to emotion. People are emotionally involved with others and tend to deny certain realities like addiction or abuse. They also want something
to be the case, so they perceive it as such. People do seem to create their own realities. One viewers perception is different from his twin brothers. One can see
why Descartes claimed that sensory information is not reliable. Descartes skepticism about senses is well known. Krishnananda (2006) explains Descartes position this way: " The defect of empiricism lies in
the fact that the senses are untrustworthy as means of right knowledge. Sense-percepts have being or reality only in relation to the constitutions of the respective senses, and never independently.
Minus the characteristics of the senses, our empirical percepts are nothing, which is equal to saying that we know, in an objective way, only what is already contained in the
very nature of the senses subjectively." Indeed, the fact that senses are subjective is at the crux of the philosophers argument. Unless there is an objective reality, people are basically
defining what is real and what is not. Life becomes confusing. Loeb (1986) explains that while beliefs which are based on sense-perception may be falsified by reason, beliefs based on
reason cannot be proven false by sensory perception. For example, someone thinks they see a ghost. They felt something or saw something fly by, but their experience may be made
false by reasonable assumptions. Someone might ask if anyone else has ever seen this ghost, or note that it is proven that ghosts do not exist. One cannot prove that
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