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Descartes
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....y Tom Nuttall
[All page references and quotations from the Meditations are taken from
the 1995 Everyman edition]
In the Meditations, Descartes embarks upon what Bernard Williams has
called the project of 'Pure Enquiry' to discover certain, indubitable
foundations for knowledge. By subjecting everything to doubt Desca.... Part 2 of Paper
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scepticism was strongly influenced by the work of the Pyrrhonians as
handed down from antiquity by Sextus Empiricus, which claimed that, as
there is never a reason to believe p that is better than a reason not to
believe p, we should forget about trying to discover the nature of reality
and live by appearance alone. This attitude was best exemplified in the
work of Michel de Montaigne, who mockingly dismissed the attempts of
theologians and scientists to understand the nature of God and the
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