Descartes Meditations
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Authority, which is churches, parents, and schools, he says,
are not reliable sources for truth because time shows we all die, and that we are
eventually proved wrong, much in the same way the accepted truths of science have
changed dramatically over the course of history. Also, he considers the generally excepted
view that our senses dependably report the absolute nature of reality...
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Simiar to authority,
Descartes discards the senses as a source of truth because of the "Dream Argument" or
the belief that based on the senses there is no definite way of proving that you are
dreaming or that you are awake. Therefore it is possible that everything we believe is
false, making the senses an unreliable source...
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