Descartes' First Meditation

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It is necesary to discard everything and start from the foundation ,if he is to establish any truth

I must make an efort to remeber what i've discovered in this meditation

I will therefore deceive myself and pretend that all my former beliefs are false to counterbalance my bias

I will suposed that there is no god instead there is a demon who's main goal is to decieve me

I shall consider everything around me as a delusion made to harm my judgement

I shall firmly persist in this meditation and guard agaisnt all falsehoods.

If god is supremely good it would be contrary to his goodness to create me in such a way to be deceived all the time

If god is supremely good it would be contrary to his goodnes to allow me to be deceived even sometimes

I know God allows me to be deceived sometimes

There are never any sure signs to differentiate being awake or dreaming

Fiction is at least in the very simplest way based on reality

If I am dreaming then my dreams must be based on some sort of reality

Therefore even if I am dreaming these basic universal truths are true

Corporeal nature, numbers, space of objects( in theory) can be taken as true

Arithmetic, geometry and other simple things, which deal with things regardless of wether they exist in nature ( which we can't prove yet) are certain.

Therefore physics, astronomy medicine and all things that rely on complex things are doubtful

I often experience similar or even more improbable events as the madmen when I dream

I sometimes have dreams of mundane life

On occasion I have believed I was awake when I was really dreaming

Descartes' First Meditation

If there is no God then I came about through a random series of events

since deception and error are imperfections it seems more likely that I am deceived all the time

There is not one of my former beliefs that I have no doubt in

I must distrust all my former beliefs in the same way I would falsehoods

I believe that there is an omnipotent god who created me

It is possible that there is no world in the way I see it but that he has made it so it appears as such to me

If something is not certain it is as invalid as something that is false

To reject an opinion I only need to establish doubt

Most of what I believe is based on my senses

My senses have fooled me before and so I cannot trust them completely

There are many things that we think it impossible for our senses to deceive us in

Madmen are equally as certain of certain things that we know are false

I think I am not mad

There are many falsehoods I accepted as true in childhood

The edifice of knowledge based on them is highly doubtful

It is necesary to discard everything and start from the foundation,if I am to establish any truth