{"id":45303,"date":"2021-09-05T01:25:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T01:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/05\/descartes-philosophical-technique-has-come-to-be-known-as-methodological-doubt-lets-play-the\/"},"modified":"2021-09-05T01:25:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T01:25:01","slug":"descartes-philosophical-technique-has-come-to-be-known-as-methodological-doubt-lets-play-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/05\/descartes-philosophical-technique-has-come-to-be-known-as-methodological-doubt-lets-play-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Descartes&#8217; philosophical technique has come to be known as &#8220;Methodological Doubt&#8221;. Let&#8217;s play the"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Descartes&#8217; philosophical technique has come to be known as &#8220;Methodological Doubt&#8221;. Let&#8217;s play the game. <br \/>Descartes claims that the large majority of the things we claim to know are not nearly as certain as we like to think. For example, in a dream, we think our experiences are real when they&#8217;re really coming from our own imagination. So, are we actually certain about our experiences of the world at all? Does experience actually provide any certainty? <br \/>Your thought experiment prompt: Can we know that our experiences of the world are not merely simulated by a sophisticated computer? If it were true that we lived in a simulation, can we still know some things for certain? Does Descartes think that we can still know some things for certain even if we live in a simulated reality? I should assign the Matrix for homework, but we can just watch the attached videos instead. Please write 250 words. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Descartes&#8217; philosophical technique has come to be known as &#8220;Methodological Doubt&#8221;. Let&#8217;s play the game. Descartes claims that the large majority of the things we claim to know are not nearly as certain as we like to think. For example, in a dream, we think our experiences are real when they&#8217;re really coming from our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-45303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-paper-writing","tag-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}