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aabwk4 · **on:** Jul 14, 2018

In his Meditations, Descartes says that the motivation for his project was a desire to:

A. share his large store of knowledge with posterity.
B. rid himself of his many false beliefs.

C. set the sciences on a firm foundation.
D. Both A and C

E. Both B and C

Question 2

Descartes argues that he might be dreaming without being aware of it in order to demonstrate that:

A. he cannot be sure of his sanity.
B. he might be deceived by an evil genius.

C. even the clearest sense perceptions may be false.

D. even the simplest arithmetic calculations, such as that 2+3=5, might be wrong.

E. even the simplest logical inferences might be invalid.