Philosophical Concept of Knowledge

Descartes accepted the reality and truths of mathematics and attempted to find that which existed in the world that could be demonstrated with scientific and mathematical certainty. Descartes was seeking absolute certainty.

The problem of knowledge is a key one in philosophy, asking as it does whether there is anything we can really know and whether what we know can be said to be objectively true. Theories of knowledge come under the heading of epistemology. We perceive the world through our sense, but our senses can be deceived. The degree of deception involved also varies according to different views of the world. Some see this deception as absolute and deny that there can be any knowledge at all through the senses. Others admit knowledge acquired through the senses while recognizing that there are limitations. RenT Descartes was a rationalist, and his thinking was governed

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oth are equally true. Self-evident propositions did not include ideas about the nature of things. Descartes said we could not deduce a priori the existence of particular physical things. We know that an object exists by experience, but to understand the true nature of the object it was necessary to apply the Cartesian method. To accomplish this, the philosopher first had to collect observations with which sense-experience supplies him. This information becomes the empirical data the philosopher then investigates, and the data are presupposed by the method. The philosopher would then try to deduce by analysis the character of the intermixture of simple natures which would be necessary to produce all those effects which the philosopher has seen to take place in connection with the object being examined. Once this is done, the philosopher can boldly assert that he has discovered the real nature of the physical object as far as human intelligence and the experimental observations will allow. The philosopher can then reverse the process and start with the simple natures and deduce the effects, which should be consistent with the effects actually observed. Experience or experiment can then tell whether these are consistent. De
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