DESCARTES, MEDITATIONS: 1. Scepticism Outline, examine and evaluate the arguments used by Descartes in the First Meditation Descartes" project in Meditations is "to demolish everything completely and start again from the foundations" in order to establish which of his beliefs he can know are true. ... Descartes first resolves to call the senses into doubt. ... However, Descartes then recalls that he has had vivid dreams in which he was performing such actions. This thought leads us to Descartes "dream theory", the second main argument of the First Meditation. ...

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Nietzche stated that "in a similarly limited way, man wants the truth; he desires the agreeable life-preserving consequences of truth." This seems to a major idea that holds the blocks of philosophy together. Truth in fact, is the ultimate star philosophers reach for. Many other questioned issues are mere comets when compared to the quest for what truth is, how truth comes about, and what truth means. This paper will explore two of the most important questions concerning truth. ...

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