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A.C. Grayling on Descartes' Cogito

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Dick Hart's Meditations on the Cogito

In the meditations, Dick Hart argues that there is a way of getting from what I think and believe to an external world in a way that guarantees my beliefs about them have a chance of being true. So how does he get beyond this simple cogito argument? Because the cogito itself is only going to give him a thinking thing,. This is where Dick Hart makes a key step. He says if there is a good God, then my beliefs about an external world have a Chance of Being True. And that indeed is what he does. Produces two arguments of the existence of God; having got his God and a good one, he can be content that there isA world and that

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