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Evaluate Descartes' suggestion that he 'could take it as a general rule that whatever we conceive very clearly and distinctly is true' (Discourse on the Method, IV)
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Evaluate Descartes' suggestion that he 'could take it as a general rule that whatever we conceive very clearly and distinctly is true' (Discourse on the Method, IV) Descartes uses the establishment of his first principle 'I am thinking therefore I am' as a basis for saying that he 'could take it as a general rule that whatever we conceive very clearly and distinctly is true'. This is because he feels there is nothing that can assure him of the truth of the claim apart from the mere fact that it is clear that in order to think it is necessary to exist as the demon 'can never bring it about that I am nothing so long as I think I am something'. However Descartes does recognise that it is difficult to distinguish between what is clear and what is not. Due to this Descartes postulates God. 'If we did not know...
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