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    Descartes's own existence serves as a foundational truth from which a broader search for knowledge can proceed

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    • 1.Innate reason, applied consistently, leads to the affirmation of Descartes's own existence
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    • 2.A disinclination toward perversity means one cannot reasonably deny what consistent reason affirms
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    • 3.Descartes's existence, once established, provides a starting point for further rational inquiry
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    • 1.The cogito establishes only a momentary, fleeting mental event, not a persistent substantial self capable of grounding further inquiry.
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    • 2.Hume's bundle theory demonstrates that 'I' denotes no unified substance but merely a succession of perceptions with no stable foundation.
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    • 3.A foundational truth requires permanence and identity over time, which the bare act of thinking cannot itself supply.
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    • 1.Lichtenberg argued the cogito is over-stated: the datum licenses only 'there is thinking occurring,' not 'I exist as a thinking thing.'
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    • 2.Inferring a substantial ego from the occurrence of thought smuggles in a pre-critical metaphysical assumption that the method of doubt should have suspended.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    At every stage of Descartes’s argument in the Meditations, there are ontological implications: the mind’s independence of sensory perceptions (perceptions whose reliability is ultimately upset by the possibility that he is dreaming), the literally unimaginable sort of thing that a physical object such as a piece of wax must be, the existence of a veracious God, who provides a guarantee for the reliability of reason, and finally the existence of a physical world consisting of extended things. Arn
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