Examples Of Proof Of The External World By Rene Descartes
DESCARTES ON THE EXTERNAL WORLD
Descartes’ made himself belief that nothing exists and starts to doubt himself about everything. First, he states that God would never create something that would oppose to another person’s perception then, he goes on to say that to imagine something that you need something to imagine about and lastly the ideas perceived by what they call senses has to come from external soul.
In the first argument, Descartes’ proof of the external world carries a lot of arguments in his perception about what knowledge he has on this world. First, we’re going to introduce the reasons of doubting the existence. Raising the dream argument where we question whether material things exist he argues that we only know it exists …show more content…
In order to imagine that image in your head then its necessary to use ideas and corporeal information. From my understanding, the premises he made is what he tries to convince the reader of the existence of the external world. I agree with the premise of his mind being able to exist without the imagination. One thing I object with his premises is that he tries to come down to the conclusion that understanding is more towards the mind and that imagination is more to the external world. I am not convinced with this argument because not everything is linked to exist without imagination. For example, the mind is still capable of existing even without imagination and vice versa where imagination is always connected to something. Looking back at the example of the three-sided triangle and the chiliagon, we perceive it as the imagination is exclusively to the mind. We believe it uses ideas and imagination to even be able to make that mental image of the chiliagon in your head. Then again, at that very moment when I have that image in my head with that present idea, I can be imagining about a brand-new idea based on the ideas that already
Descartes’ made himself belief that nothing exists and starts to doubt himself about everything. First, he states that God would never create something that would oppose to another person’s perception then, he goes on to say that to imagine something that you need something to imagine about and lastly the ideas perceived by what they call senses has to come from external soul.
In the first argument, Descartes’ proof of the external world carries a lot of arguments in his perception about what knowledge he has on this world. First, we’re going to introduce the reasons of doubting the existence. Raising the dream argument where we question whether material things exist he argues that we only know it exists …show more content…
In order to imagine that image in your head then its necessary to use ideas and corporeal information. From my understanding, the premises he made is what he tries to convince the reader of the existence of the external world. I agree with the premise of his mind being able to exist without the imagination. One thing I object with his premises is that he tries to come down to the conclusion that understanding is more towards the mind and that imagination is more to the external world. I am not convinced with this argument because not everything is linked to exist without imagination. For example, the mind is still capable of existing even without imagination and vice versa where imagination is always connected to something. Looking back at the example of the three-sided triangle and the chiliagon, we perceive it as the imagination is exclusively to the mind. We believe it uses ideas and imagination to even be able to make that mental image of the chiliagon in your head. Then again, at that very moment when I have that image in my head with that present idea, I can be imagining about a brand-new idea based on the ideas that already