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This 10 page paper provides an overview of René Descartes's Meditations. Several meditations are discussed in depth, including the dreaming argument. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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he even know if he exists? What is knowledge anyway? His questions are at the heart of every skeptics journey. There are so many things in life that are confusing
and go unexplained. There are so many things that people want to know but usually forgo the investigation and concentrate on more mundane matters that require immediate attention. Philosophical concerns
becomes reduced to trusting God and not asking too many questions. Still, such explanations that suggest man just cannot understand these things are not sufficient for all. Philosophers and theologians
have tried to explain such inquiries but often, while the reasoning is plausible, it usually falls short of adequately and thoroughly explaining away why things are the way they seem.
Ren? Descartess Meditations to some extent helps to explain life, but they are as confusing as they are profound. One example of how confusing the meditations can be comes from
the dreaming argument. It is an argument that does not really resolve any life problem, but adds new ones. Descartes hypothesized that there are no true signs in life
which can be distinguished from dreaming. Then, he explains that if there are no such signs, he does not know if he is dreaming or not and finally, the last
statement in the proof is a conclusion that says that he does not know whether or not he is dreaming. Yet, it has been noted that Ren? Descartes never really
doubted his existence when he questioned the true state (Honderich, 1995). He was, rather, trying to say that human senses are in fact fallible (1995). Hence, the dreaming argument may
or may not be taken literally. The example of the dreaming argument is simply one concept that emanates from Descartes Meditations, but it has numerous theoretical implications. It has implications
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