Descartes Meditation Essay

1. If Descartess aim is to find certainty, why does he proceed by wondering(a) as many things as he plunder? He feels that as long as he goes on believing his old beliefs, indolence and habit ordain block him from receiving any truths. He feels that if he regards his beliefs in the same way as he does any falsehoods he can remain unbiased when judging information and only then will he receive real truths. 2. What reason does he give for quizzical that the senses give knowledge?That a man asleep can incur a realistic reverie that he is having the same experiences as a man thats awake. 3. What does the experience of dreams show us concerning the senses? He dialog about how real dreams appear even though they are turn out to be deceiving. And if one can be deceived in a dream by all of their senses can they not also be deceived in reality by some supernatural demon. He says hypothetically that graven image may not have created earth, shapes, etc. and everything that we sense c ould be a form of deception. 4. Why can he doubt even that 2=3 = 5.He talks about the fact that he sometimes doubt others who claim to have the most perfect knowledge. And if that can be the case for them cant it also be possible for him to be wrong about obvious truths. Also, if one may feel that if beau ideals goodness would assure him from being deceived SOME of the time, wouldnt it stop him from being deceived ALL of the time since he is clearly deceived some of the time. basically he is acknowledging the fact that he could be wrong.