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Descartes's Methodic Doubt.

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Have a little read: ... Charlotte Lavin 110SPH101 Descartes's Methodic Doubt. Rene Descartes (1596-1650), the famous French mathematician and the father of modern philosophy, investigated the internal functions of the mind in comparison to the external world and highlighted the difference between thinking and perceiving. His use of methodic doubt is introspective, but also logical and objective and an attempt to clear away the 'clutter' of history. The primary source for this used throughout this essay in examining his systematic doubt will be 'Meditations' (1641) and 'Discourse of Method' (1637). He seeked to discover a new kind of scientific knowledge by following a straightforward few rules, he pushes doubt as far as it can go to see if anything can survive such sceptical doubt. In the first Meditation, Descartes begins to consider what he can possibly know. From this it is clear that Descartes' methodic doubt has two stages: firstly, doubt everything that can be doubted and secondly, do

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