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Article #923Descartes argument and assumptions (Re: Deduciblity as knowledge )
From: ed298-ak
Date: Thu, 28 May 1987 04:04
Date: Thu, 28 May 1987 04:04
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A number of replies to my posting have suggested that I failed to note that Descartes axioms are at fault. My point was precisely that Descartes conclusions are an artifact of the logic he was assuming. If you truly assume that nothing is certain then you clearly have no right to exclude your logical axioms from that hypothesis. I believe that faulting Descartes for this is not entirely fair. Afterall, he invented the search for doubt and certainty didn't benefit from all the doubts we have had since (including my doubts about this SIG!) Edouard Lagache School of Education U.C. Berkeley lagache@violet.berkeley.edu
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!jade!violet.berkeley.edu!ed298-ak From: ed298-ak@violet.berkeley.edu.UUCP Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech Subject: Descartes argument and assumptions (Re: Deduciblity as knowledge ) Message-ID: <3750@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Thu, 28-May-87 00:04:55 EDT Article-I.D.: jade.3750 Posted: Thu May 28 00:04:55 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 29-May-87 05:24:04 EDT References: <6762@mimsy.UUCP> <13261@watmath.UUCP> <3978@sdcc3.ucsd.EDU> <3722@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <728@bsu-cs.UUCP> Sender: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: lagache@violet.berkeley.edu (Edouard Lagache) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 15 Keywords: Descartes, Proof theory, Theory of Knowledge Summary: GIVEN Descartes assumptions his conclusions are correct.