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A-level Philosophy Mind Map on AS Philosophy - Descartes' a Priori Reasoning, created by Georgia Stanley on 19/04/2015.

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AS Philosophy - Descartes' a PrioriReasoningPOINT 1All sensory experiences can be doubted. Sensory (empirical) evidence is doubtable.- all sense experience is produced by an 'evil demon'- you cannot tell that the experience is false by experienceEMPIRICISM FAILS TO SECURE CERTAINTY- cannot know whether or not the experience is true or false becausewe cannot doubt the origins of our sense experiencePOINT 2Something that cannot be doubted. "I thinktherefore I am"Descartes' realises that when he is thinking, he exists, even if an evil demon istrying to convince him that he isn'tDescarts cannot doubt that he is thinkingDescartes arrives at his certainty through reasoning and intuitionPOINT 3Descartes cannot doubt that he exists but he can doubt that he is physical- Descartes only believes he has a body because of sense experiences, butthese are doubtable (evil demon)POINT 4Descartes offers 3 options for what might cause our experiences of physical objects1. Real world2. God3. Evil demonGod is the creator of (false) experiences of physical objectsbecause he would be decieving us.God is no deciever because he's not a demon - because God would be allowing ademon to convince us of something false, but god isn't a decieverCONCLUSION 1CONCLUSION 2Because god is perfect, he is not a deciever, so if god exists there mustbe an external physical worldThere must be a self + physical world because both can be justified through rationalintuition and demonstration. As long as god exists, sense experience cannot reach thisproof, because it is doubtable.Double click this nodeto edit the textClick and drag this buttonto create a new node