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How can we know if we are a brain in a vat? Can we be sure that we are not the playthings of evil demons? These questions have been discussed by many philosophers in the past and still we do not have a proof that we are not some demons plaything. Yet, at least two prominent philosophers, Renι Descartes and John Locke believed there are ways to prove that we are not brains in vats.
At one point in his philosophy, Descartes reflect ....
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.... of reason alone, certain universal, self-evident truths could be discovered, from which the remaining content of philosophy and the sciences could be deductively derived. Descartes therefore believed that his knowledge exist.
Descartes then tried to prove the existence of God which will help him in proving knowledge. He thought that the representative power that a finite thinking object has in creating mental pictures of things that is more perfe ....
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