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Rene Descartes 1596-1650 Rene Descartes 1596-1650

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Meditation 2: Problems with CogitoProblems:1. Why can’t I doubt our ability to reason from these claims?We are we using reason. But didn’t <strong>Descartes</strong> say that wecan’t trust our reason.2. We can say things that are true within certain contexts-eventhough they don’t exist (e.g., orcs in Lord of the Rings).3. This argument is a strong assumption.4. One of the best objectors was Gassendi (pg. 68) in the fifthobjections.61

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