Through his work, René Descartes was the founder of modern rationalism. He sought the groundbreaking idea that all knowledge can be based via a deductive chain of inference. His ideas replaced an adoration for tradition with a desire for independence. He questioned everything that could be rationally doubted. He opened all knowledge to doubt by using three arguments: 1) The dream argument 2)The deceiving God argument 3) The evil demon argument. Each of the argument above shows that we never view external objects directly but only as a mental image.
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