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This 5 page paper provides an overview of the Mediations. The purpose of the mediations is also explained. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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there are no true signs in life which can be distinguished from dreaming. Then, he said 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 189). He was, rather, trying to say that human senses are in fact
fallible (189). However, he delved into subjects which did question reality. In looking at a proof based on his suppositions, one has to wonder if in fact the proof is
simply worded in such a way as to appear valid, or is it truly logical? Descartes wrote in Synopsis to the Meditations that the purpose of the
meditations is not to prove what they establish, but rather to show how the world of physics could be mapped reliability and independent of the usually vague and misleading deliverance
of sensory organs (Honderich 189). Hence, Descartes searches for a way to classify things and express them and is not really looking for answers related to existence or transcendence. Interestingly,
many will read his arguments, which are admittedly logical and wonder whether or not they exist in the universe or whether they are something that has been artificially created for
them. In looking at Descartess mediations, there are three skeptical arguments, one of which has already been presented and is called the dreaming argument. Another is the argument from
sense perception and finally, the third argument is the evil demon argument. In the first meditation, Descartes says: "All that I have, up to this moment, accepted as possessed of
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