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Descartes vs Hume - " I am certain that I am a thinking thing. Do I not therefore also know what is requiredfor my being certain about anything?
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DESCARTES V.S. HUME " I am certain that I am a thinking thing. Do I not therefore also know what is required for my being certain about anything? In this first item of knowledge there is simply a clear and distinct perception of what I am asserting... So I now seem to be able to lay it down as a general rule that whatever I perceive very clearly and distinctly is true." (R. Descartes. "Third Meditation" p.24) "How can I know that something is certain, what is the origin of our ideas?" Descartes and Hume are the philosophers who tried to answer these questions. Descartes believes that he can know the certainty but Hume asserts that we should doubt everything because the knowledge is probable not certain. However, when we look at these two philosophers, we realize that Hume has more point than Descartes about the way of understanding certainty...
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