Rene Descartes Meditations
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Rene Descartes Meditations
Rene Descartes is on of the most infamous philosophers. He has come up with concepts that will make you think twice about your every day life. One of Rene's more famous writings was the Meditations. In this he explains reasons why it is possible for our existence. He also explains why or why not we could rely on our own senses or memory to prove that we exist. Rene Descartes doubted so much about existing that the doubting is what proved his existence.
Rene starts off his first argument with the concept of dubitablity. A proposition is dubitable when a certain sort of story can be constructed about its certainty. Dubitability is a logical property that a proposition has nothing to do with whether we can yet ourselves also believe that the proposition is false. This is Rene's way a coming out trying to say that he needs an explanation of why he exists...