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Descartes
Beginning of Paper
How does try to extricate himself from the sceptical doubts
that he has raised? Does he succeed?
by 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
ca .... Middle of Paper .... to this outlook during his time at the Jesuit college La Flech_
and it had an important influence on his work, as we shall see later. The
second was the scepticism that had made a sudden impact on the
intellectual world, mainly as a reaction to the scholastic outlook. This
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 ....
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