Even the colors of dreams and paintings are real because they cannot be made up or original. Things such as Astronomy, Physics and Medicine are based off of composite objects and are of doubtful character, while things such as Arithmetic and Geometry are based on simple, general objects. He gives the example that you always know that 2+3=5 and there are 4 sides to a square, for it is not possible for them to be false. Descartes then talks about how God created him, but how does he know that God actually created anything around him and that he is not just being deceived, or everything else is just a perception of the mind? How do we know we are not being deceived each time we add 2+3? Or count the sides of a square? He then questions whether or not God deceives us, but then says that he is good and would not do that, except for sometimes. Descartes says that however we were made, we are the imperfect enough to be the “constant victim of deception.” Descartes ends by saying that he became his own deceiver by believing that his old opinions are all false and
Even the colors of dreams and paintings are real because they cannot be made up or original. Things such as Astronomy, Physics and Medicine are based off of composite objects and are of doubtful character, while things such as Arithmetic and Geometry are based on simple, general objects. He gives the example that you always know that 2+3=5 and there are 4 sides to a square, for it is not possible for them to be false. Descartes then talks about how God created him, but how does he know that God actually created anything around him and that he is not just being deceived, or everything else is just a perception of the mind? How do we know we are not being deceived each time we add 2+3? Or count the sides of a square? He then questions whether or not God deceives us, but then says that he is good and would not do that, except for sometimes. Descartes says that however we were made, we are the imperfect enough to be the “constant victim of deception.” Descartes ends by saying that he became his own deceiver by believing that his old opinions are all false and