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In the course of the Meditations, Descartes worked himself into what is known as the "egocentric predicament"; he worked himself into a state where he (claimed to) doubt the existence of anything but his own mind.
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Descartes is seeking a certain foundation for his edifice of knowledge. ... The "Ego-Centric" Predicament is the difficulty with trying to penetrate the screen of perception. That is, it is difficult to see how we can get beyond our perceptions of the world to what the world is actually like.
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As Descartes famously saw, my own existence seems beyond serious doubt. ... self—what philosophers sometimes also call the egocentric predicament. ...
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www.open.ac.uk/Arts/philos/tis.prel.doc
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So the problem Descartes sets himself to answer is that of overcoming what is sometimes called the Egocentric Predicament. There is only one way out, ...
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In trying to escape from the ego-centric predicament, Descartes seems to be arguing in a circle – assuming what he is trying to prove. ...
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Sherrie asked this question: What is the nature and meaning of the egocentric predicament?; I ought to try to answer Sherrie's question, ... It belongs to another age, when 'realists' battled it out with 'idealists', and the theory of knowledge was conceived along the lines laid out by Descartes in his Meditations:
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3rd Meditation: This meditation begins with the egocentric predicament: Descartes has proved that his own mind exists, but how can he prove the truth of any beliefs about the external world? To address this problem, Descartes replaces the indubitability criterion of truth with the...
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www.isu.edu/~baerralp/Descartes.pdf
www.isu.edu/~baerralp/Descartes.pdf
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So Descartes' strategy to get out of the solipsistic predicament and prove that he is not alone in the universe is to find an idea which must be caused by something other than himself. To prove it the idea must be caused by something other than himself he will appeal to the causal principle for objective reality.
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descartes meditation notes ... rene descartes will ... rene descartes info on his dicovery...
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