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Ep. 22 - Descartes vs. Hobbes

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

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The Importance of Certitude in Descartes

Descartes famously says, I want to doubt everything. Try to find something I cannot doubt. He makes a mistake about this notion of certainty. The logical notion of certainty is something like absolute deductive validity. That's different from psychological certainty. Psychological certainty is an inability to doubt.

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