... iam extremely prone to err and that i almost never rely on the first thoughts that come to me, still the experience i have of the objections that can be made against me prevents me from expecting any profit from them. for i have already often put to the test the judgment of those i took to be my friends, as well as of some other whom i took to be indifferent, and even of those too whose maliciousness and envy i knew would try hard enough to discover what affection would hide from my friends.
Descartes i believe in some previous parts mentions how he does not trust anyones else's ideas but his own and yet here he is trying to perform a controlled experiment. trying to figure out a scientific method by which to arrive at truth of being. however he also mentions that not everyone thinks alike and the idea that he may develop might be distorted in someone else's mind. in other words not everyone is going to see things the same way.
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Decarte is a very contradicting person. In the other part of Decarte, he recogamented others to put their experimental findings together and tell the public about the findings, so the study wil go quicker, and now he's saying that he doesn't trust everyone's thoguhts because we have diff. thoughts and understandings.
I agree with you ally Decartes its always contradicting himself. Another good example will be when he did not believe in god than later on he believes in him. I think he should just focused on one thing and stick to it!!!
you know something i don't think that we can trust Descartes work because he contradicts himself all the time its confusing. and it leads to nothing he can say and explain the truths of life but then he contradicts himself so how can we believe in his work.
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