Mental State and Reading Essay

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ending" in the reading you selected. Clearly identify the point in the reading when you realized that there were elements in the reading that surprised you. Not all of the surprises come at the end.

I was quite intrigued at the element of surprise at the beginning after I had read the account on how Descartes turned down every argument he earlier presented.

According to Descartes, he had always known that in real life, there are times when one just has to act on opinions that are clearly uncertain as if they were true without any iota of doubt. But at a time when he was devoted to searching for the real truth, he felt he had to do the very opposite - to regard everything he had always believed to be true as false and reject them. This was to enable him see if he would be left with anything too unquestionable to believe. Therefore, he decided to imagine that nothing is actually the exact way as we are made to imagine they are by our senses, because our senses have the tendency to deceive us sometimes. Additionally, he" Turned down all the arguments I have always viewed in the light of very demonstrative proofs and termed them unsound.

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I never expected the rejection because some men do not reason intelligently, even when it comes to the simplest of geometrical questions, and even commit reasonable fallacies; and I have always thought my openness to this one is never in doubt."(Descartes, 2007)

Lastly, Descartes chose to act as though every idea that his mind had accepted was as false as the illusions his dreams produce, because every mental state we assume when we are awake can equally play out in our dreams while we sleep, without containing any trace of truth. However, as soon as he embarked on this project, he noticed that in his quest to classify everything in his mind as false, he could not think about these things if he was not something. And the realization that "If I can think, then I exist" was so real and strong that even the most excessive assumptions of the cynics could not shake it; he concluded that it was possible for him to accept it without any misgivings as was the case of the foremost principle of the philosophy he was after (Descartes, 2007).

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