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Descartes compares his beliefs to this fruit and container
What is a basket of apples?
The type of knowledge that survives the dreaming argument
What is a priori knowledge (eg maths)?
What Descartes likes to wear when he's sitting by the fire
What is his winter dressing gown?
Things that are small or far away
What might your senses deceive you about?
To find certain knowledge, and something lasting in the sciences
What was Descartes' aim in Meditation I?
The amount of knowledge that Descartes has at the end of Meditation I
What is none?
Descartes imagines that he is deceiving him for fun
Who is the malicious demon?
Descartes gets most of his knowledge from these
What are the senses?
Descartes imagines this to help him maintain his doubt, as he doesn't believe God would deceive him
What is the malicious demon?
What Descartes might be doing when he thinks he's sitting by the fire
What is dreaming?
The type of knowledge that is destroyed by the dreaming argument
What is knowledge from the senses?
The belief held by Descartes that reason is the foundation of knowledge
What is rationalism?
The argument that we can't trust a priori knowledge like 2 + 3 = 5 as God may be tricking us
What is the deceiving God argument?
Descartes would be like one of these if he doubted his senses completely
What is a madman?
There are no certain signs to distinguish these two things from each other
What are dreaming and wakefulness?