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Episode 2: Descartes’s Meditations: What Can We Know?

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Do You Believe That?

"There's a certain kind of visceral experience, or a viscerale nature of experience, that makes it so sure," he says. "I can't doubt that i'm sitting here in a chair in front of the fire." He asks if we have any context for why he would make that statement and whether people would believe it. 'Is it our natural propensity to think that those sort of sensory perceptions are the most certain? It seems that way'

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