Early modern philosopher who rejected religious authority in the quest for scientific and philosophical knowledge.
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www.iep.utm.edu/d/descarte.htm
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Perhaps Descartes' most well known philosophical ideas are his method of hyperbolic doubt, and the idea that though one may doubt, one may not doubt that one exists. The method of hyperbolic doubt is the refusal to accept either the authority of previous philosophers or information gleaned from one's own senses.
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www.egs.edu/resources/descartes.html
www.egs.edu/resources/descartes.html
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Article by Lex Newman from the Stanford Encyclopedi ... These passages (and others) clarify that Descartes understands doubt as the contrast of certainty. As my certainty increases, my doubt decreases; conversely, as my doubt increases, my certainty decreases.
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plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-epistemology/
plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-epistemology/
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Humanist Ideas: The philosophical ideas of Descartes consisted of a method of "Hyperbolic Doubt" and the idea that he cannot doubt his existence but can have doubts about anything else. He had doubts about the authority of the philosophy who came before him and which he rejected.
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www.gofigger.org/hphist/hphist6.htm
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Hyperbolic doubt superficially resembles modern skepticism in its questioning of accepted tenets; Neither will be satisfied by mere conjecture or force of will. The differences, however, are fundamental. Modern skepticism is based on induction, requiring evidence instead of the deductive proof Descartes employs.
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surge.ods.org/newness/meditation_one.htm
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Descartes (Hyperbolic Doubt). (Reading: Http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/pdfbits/dm1.pdf ). Principle of Hyperbolic Doubt. “If I can doubt B, ...
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Descartes attempted to address the former issue via his method of doubt. His basic strategy was to consider false any belief that falls prey to even the slightest doubt. This “hyperbolic doubt” then serves to clear the way for what Descartes considers to be an unprejudiced search for the truth.
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www.utm.edu/research/iep/d/descarte.htm
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It was the method of hyperbolic doubt initiated by Descartes which raised the issue of whether we can know that an external physical world exists. Descartes thought that validation is required because of the possibility that we are always dreaming.
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philosophy.ucdavis.edu/mattey/phi102/modern4.html
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Joe Carter of Evangelical Outpost has posted a pair of articles on the subject of "doubt, certainty, and epistemic humility" in which he blasts Rene Descartes for giving place to doubt in his quest to utlimately provide the epistemic groundwork for a Christian worldview.
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blog.kennypearce.net/archives/philosophy/evangelical_ou...
blog.kennypearce.net/archives/philosophy/evangelical_out.html
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