Review Questions

1. What is foundationalism in epistemology? What does it have to do with Euclidean geometry? With building a house?

2. What is the method of doubt test? What does Descartes use this method to do? What fails the test? What passes?

3. What does it mean to say that there is a "gap" between our first-person psychological beliefs and the beliefs we have about the world outside the mind?

4. Descartes thought that proving that God exists would help show why we are able to have knowledge of the world around us. Why did he think this? Is the proposition that "God exists and is no deceiver" foundational, according to Descartes?

5. Analyze Descartes' causal argument for the existence of God. Suppose that one of Aquinas's arguments for the existence of God is valid and has true premises. Could Descartes have used it, instead of his causal argument, to prove that God exists?

6. What is the Problem of the Cartesian Circle?

7. In the previous chapter, an argument for skepticism was presented. How would Descartes evaluate this argument?

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